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Although it is impossible to be sure – no documented likeness of Fabritius exists – this is almost certainly a self portrait. The intensity of the gaze and the posture are reminiscent of a series of earlier self portraits made by Rembrandt and his other pupils. The costume he wears, including a soldier’s breastplate, also fits in with this tradition: Rembrandt, for example, painted himself as a soldier in the 1630s.
The fact that it was a self portrait probably wasn’t considered important at the time. Images of personality types or characters in different professions, known as tronies, were popular and artists would use themselves as models to paint from.
Title
A Young Man in a Fur Cap and a Cuirass (probably a Self Portrait)
Date
1654
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 70.5 x W 61.5 cm
Accession number
NG4042
Acquisition method
Bought, 1924
Work type
Painting
