File:Michael Sweerts - self portrait with a skull c.1660.jpg

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Michiel Sweerts: Self-portrait with a Skull

Artist



Description	Flemish painter, drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death	presumably September 1618	1664
Location of birth/death	City of Brussels	Goa
Work period	1643 –1661
Authority file	: Q1342328 VIAF: 18030345 ISNI: 0000000080977372 ULAN: 500026983 LCCN: nr96022588 WGA: s/sweerts WorldCat

Title

Self portrait with a skull

Object type

painting

Genre

self-portrait

Description

English: Self-portrait with a skull

Depicted people

Michiel Sweerts

Date

circa 1660

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 78.7 cm (30.9 in); width: 61 cm (24 in)

Collection

Agnes Etherington Art Centre

	Native name	Agnes Etherington Art Centre
	Parent institution	Queen's University
	Location	Kingston, Ontario, Canada
	Coordinates	44° 13′ 31.08″ N, 76° 29′ 47.04″ W
	Established	1957
	Website	agnes.queensu.ca
	Authority file	: Q4693034 VIAF: 159463130 ISNI: 0000000121958531 ULAN: 500300919 LCCN: n82006613 SUDOC: 145857328 WorldCat

Accession number

47-001 (Agnes Etherington Art Centre)

Notes

The skull was overpainted by a previous owner and has now been restored

References

This image is available from the Netherlands Institute for Art History
under digital ID 67939.

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Source/Photographer

http://agnes.queensu.ca/search-our-collections/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=sweerts&record=0

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:40, 8 July 2020	840 × 1,080 (998 KB)	Ovotional (talk \| contribs)	Cropped 34 % horizontally using CropTool with precise mode.
	06:39, 8 July 2020	1,279 × 1,080 (1.23 MB)	Ovotional (talk \| contribs)	bigeer
	15:44, 3 September 2018	615 × 800 (103 KB)	BrightR (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 08:07, 20 July 2014 (UTC) - correct white balance, more detail
	04:40, 13 March 2016	836 × 1,080 (1.63 MB)	La zimuth (talk \| contribs)	clearer
	14:37, 1 November 2015	1,723 × 2,244 (446 KB)	1Veertje (talk \| contribs)	Importing file
	08:07, 20 July 2014	615 × 800 (103 KB)	Jane023 (talk \| contribs)	{{Artwork \|Description=Self portrait with a skull {{RKD\|67939}} \|medium=oil on canvas \|dimensions=78.7 cm x 61 cm \|Source=http://www.pubhist.com/w4394 \|Date=c.1660 \|Artist={{Creator:Michael Sweerts}} \|Permission={{PD-Art-100}} \|notes=Skull was overpai...