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Rembrandt created approaching one hundred self-portraits including over forty paintings, thirty-one etchings and about seven drawings; some remain uncertain as to the identity of either the subject (mostly etchings) or the artist (mostly paintings), or the definition of a portrait.
In this 1659 self-portrait, 53-year-old Rembrandt van Rijn’s deep-set eyes bore into the viewer’s. His pose is modelled on Raphael’s famous portrait of Balthasar Castiglione, which Rembrandt saw at an auction in 1639.
Jan 12, 2022 · Rembrandt’s self-portraits were a significant component of his output. These paintings by Rembrandt numbered around one hundred self-portraits. But why did Rembrandt make so many self-portraits, and which are the most noted works?
Aug 12, 2021 · Rembrandt’s Self Portrait, 1628 captures a young man on the brink of adulthood at 23 years old, with youthful plump skin and wild, unruly hair.
Rembrandt was a dedicated self-portraitist all his life, and roughly forty self-portraits by him survive today. In this example, painted when Rembrandt was fifty-four, the artist was unsparing in depicting the signs of aging in his own face, building up the paint in high relief to convey his furrowed brow, the heavy pouches beneath his eyes ...
Rembrandt painted, drew, and etched so many self-portraits in his lifetime that changes in his appearance invite us to gauge his moods by comparing one image to another. Such a biographical...
There is much evidence that Rembrandt’s series of almost forty reliably documented self-portraits – unique in the history of painting – served as more than merely a vehicle for the Amsterdam...
Title: Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume. Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam) Date: 1638. Medium: Etching. Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. B. S. Oppenheimer, in memory of Dr. B. S. Oppenheimer, 1964. Accession Number: 64.649.5.
Artwork Details. Title: Self-Portrait. Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam) (reworked by another hand) Date: 1635–40. Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray ink, brown and gray washes. Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (13.6 x 11.4 cm)
Feb 24, 2019 · Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 to 1669) was a Dutch baroque painter, draughtsman, and printmaker who was not only one of the greatest artists of all time, but created the most self-portraits of any other known artist. He had great success as an artist, teacher, and art dealer during the Dutch Golden Age, but living beyond his means and investments in ...
