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

Self-Portrait

1669
Oil on canvas, 71 x 54 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Catalogue number: Bredius 60.

Since 1676, this painting is documented in the world famous Florentine collection of self-portraits initiated in 1664 by Leopoldo de' Medici (1617-1675), who became cardinal in 1667. Leopoldo was an art collector as well as a poet, politician, amateur painter and participant in the European-wide Republic of Letters.

The painting is covered by a thick layer of yellowed and degraded varnish, consequently many details are difficult to distinguish. Probably the painting was originally substantially larger.