REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam) |
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Self-Portrait1639Etching, first state of two, 207 x 164 mm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
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Catalogue number: Bartsch 21. This is a self-portrait leaning on a stone sill. In this self-portrait, Rembrandt takes on a guise that his contemporaries would have associated with a poet. Rembrandt emulates a pose bestowed by Titian on a sitter thought at the time to be the Ferrara court poet Ludovico Ariosto | |
