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

Self-Portrait as a Young Man

1634
Oil on wood, 62 x 54 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Catalogue number: Bredius 20.

The half-length figure is depicted in a cap and gorget. The painting shows the artist with a strong-willed expression, in an extremely natural, uneffected pose; the figure is illuminated by a light coming from the left whose spreading glow enlarges the space which serves as a background.