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Catalogue number: Bredius 2.
Throughout his long career, Rembrandt continued to produce self-portraits in a vast number of drawings, etchings and paintings, but his intentions and ideas concerning them fundamentally changed over the years. In the present 1629 self-portrait Rembrandt painted himself in a slightly stooped posture with the intention of evoking a sense of movement and spontaneity. Now aged twenty-three, he gazes intently at us with his eyebrows raised and his lips slightly parted, as if in a state of sudden bewilderment or inquisitive interaction with the viewer.
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