English: This self-portrait was made during Hoogstraten’s best years, career wise. It is an oil painting, monochromatically painted in brown – thus part of the “Brunaille” genre. Hoogstraten emphasises his prestige front and centre by integrating the medal of honour he received by emperor Ferdinand III in Vienna into the painting and he himself wearing an expensive “japonse rok”, which was a rare commodity at the time. The pen helps to depict him as an educated painter and art scientist. Below the painting is written: “Hoogstraten, who switches between brush and pen, wants his fatherland to know him thus, true from life, less in his image than in his art, based purely on reason, lauded in Caesar’s court, at Rome and in London.”