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

Self-Portrait

1659
Oil on canvas, 85 x 66 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Catalogue number: Bredius 51.

Rembrandt represented himself more than a hundred times in drawings, etchings and paintings. The series constitutes one of the most revealing and honest autobiographies ever made. Every change of fortune and impact of time and emotion was recorded with dispassionate truth. Here, aged fifty-three, his expression mirrors a life saddened by personal tragedy.




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