Rembrandt van Rijn - Self Portrait with Beret and Gold Chain 1631
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Self Portrait with Beret and Gold Chain 1631
70x57cm oil/board
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool:
Rembrandt’s earliest images of himself, produced in the late 1620s when he was still in Leiden, were small. They were often tiny etched prints in which he used his own features to practise varying facial expressions and gestures and capture different moods and characters. He would then insert these into the narrative history paintings that formed the core of his work at the time.
Rembrandt realised that the essence of creating an action picture was to introduce reactions. His only recorded statement about art was that he sought in his work to create: “the greatest and most natural [e]motion”.