REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Portrait of the Artist at His Easel

1660
Oil on canvas, 111 x 85 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Catalogue number: Bredius 53.

In this self-portrait, dressed in old clothes, wearing an ordinary cap and a collarless shirt, his face weary and badly shaven, Rembrandt portrayed himself as a grand old master, aging and poor, but serene, in the solitude of creation.