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

Self-Portrait

1634
Oil on panel, 71 x 55 cm
Private collection

This painting is not included in the Bredius catalogue. In this self-portrait the artist depicted himself with shaded eyes.

In a number of self-portraits of the early Amsterdam period Rembrandt poses and dresses himself in the same dignified, somewhat distanced air as the merchant sitters of his portraits. Like most of his sitters, he shows no attributes of his occupation.