Rijksmuseum

Self-portrait

Date

c. 1809

Medium

panel, cardboard, paper, oil paint (paint)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

The promising painter Wouter van Troostwijk is said to have died young from a cold he caught while drawing outside at night. An artist’s life could hardly end more romantically! His atelier is pictured in this informal self-portrait, which he made shortly before his death. Grouped together on top of the cupboard are plaster casts of Classical sculptures, the models traditionally used by a painter.

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