Self Portrait
c.1535-40RCIN 405780
This panel and the one shown to the right are pendant portraits depicting the artist and his wife. Joos van Cleve presents himself as a distinguished gentleman in rich, sombre clothes, gesturing towards his wife as though in mid-sentence. He may have painted these works to mark his second marriage in the early 1530s.
WINDSOR CASTLE INVENTORY....[date] / No.... [inventory number]; oval stamp referring to the Victorian Pictures Inventory[1872] No 93