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

A Man Laughing

c. 1629
Oil on copper, 16 x 13 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Catalogue number: Bredius 134.

The sense of humour entered Rembrandt's repertoire rather early. The head of a laughing man was a motif that went out into the world under his name in prints of about 1630 by his associate Jan Joris van Vliet.