Description
An in-depth exploration of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Self-Portrait, Age 23 (1629) by Rembrandt.
This book will be an in-depth examination of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Rembrandt Self-Portrait, Age 23 (1629). It will highlight one of the most important paintings in the Museum's collection during its moment at the centre of a major season exhibition. It will accompany the exhibition The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt (co-organised by The Jewish Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (August 6 2026 -January 18, 2027) which includes the Self-Portrait, the only work by Rembrandt not stolen from the Museum in 1990.
Nathaniel Silver will explore Isabella Stewart Gardner's taste for Rembrandt and the acquisition of this painting as a turning point in her collecting. He will also contribute an extended catalogue entry, placing it within Rembrandt's practice of self-portraiture throughout his career. Conservator Lucia Bay will address Rembrandt's technique, focusing on select details.
Exhibition Schedule
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
6 August 2026-18 January 2027
Published by Paul Holberton Publishing/Distributed by Yale University Press
Author: Nathaniel Silver
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
Published: 08/11/2026
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.32h x 7.75w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9781917976053
ISBN10: 1917976054
BISAC Categories:
- Art | European | Dutch
- Art | Individual Artists | Monographs
- Art | Subjects & Themes | Portraits
About the Author
Nathaniel Silver is Associate Director and Chief Curator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and author of Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (2022), Simone Martini in Orvieto (2022), and Fra Angelico Heaven on Earth (2018).
Lucia Bay is the Associate Painting Conservator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a founder and editor for the Materia Journal for Technical Art History.