Self-Portrait Etching at a Window

Museum record 181616: Self-Portrait Etching at a Window by Rembrandt van Rijn. A verified entry point for discovery.

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No artist has probed the potential of self-portraiture with greater tenacity and variety than Rembrandt . Over the course of his long career, he made over 80 self-portraits in oil, in chalk, in pen and ink and wash, and in etching. A large portion of these self-examinations were created while he was a young man, and served to spread his fame, his name and image, while advertising his abilities in portraiture and dramatic expression. But perhaps Rembrandt's most soul-searching and moving images date from…