Self-portraits by Rembrandt

File:Rembrandt laughing.jpg|A more cheerful pose painted on copper. Rembrandt Laughing, , re-discovered in 2008, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles File:Self-portrait (1628-1629), by Rembrandt.jpg|A young Rembrandt () when he was 22. Partly an exercise in chiaroscuro. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Zelfportret (1629) - Alte Pinakothek.jpg|1629. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. File:Rembrandt - Clowes self-portrait, 1629.png|. Self-portrait (Indianapolis). Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art. File:Rembrandt van Rijn 184.jpg|Self-Portrait in a Gorget, , oil on panel. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. File:Rembrandt (da), autoritratto con gorgiera, 1629 ca. 01.jpg|Self-Portrait with Lace Collar . Mauritshuis, The Hague. File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-Portrait, Age 23 - P21n6 - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.jpg|Self-Portrait, Age 23 (1629). Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Bernard Berenson called it "one of the most precious pictures in existence". File:Selfportrait (Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn) - Nationalmuseum - 22374.tif|Small self-portrait on copper with beret and gathered shirt (‘stilus mediocris’) by Rembrandt, 1630. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. File:Rembrandt self portrait c. 1630.jpg|Self-Portrait, . Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The Liverpool Self-Portrait is transitional between a study of expression, a tronie and a conventional head-and-shoulders 'portrait of the artist'. File:Rembrandt with poodle 1631-3.jpg|Self-Portrait in Oriental Costume with Poodle, 1631-1633. Last self-portrait produced in his hometown and only full-length self-portrait. Exotic dress and spacious setting indicate a Portrait historié. Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Petit Palais, Paris. File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 144.jpg|Rembrandt in 1632, when he was enjoying great success as a fashionable portraitist in this style. Burrell Collection, Glasgow. File:Rembrandt van Rijn 176.jpg|Self-portrait with hat, 1632, sold in 2020. Private Collection. File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 141.jpg|Self-portrait Wearing a Toque and a Gold Chain, 1633. Louvre Museum, Paris. File:Rembrandt - Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret - Google Art Project.jpg|Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret and Furred Mantle, 1634. Gemäldegalerie Berlin. File:Self-Portrait with Shaded Eyes, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634, The Leiden Collection, New York.jpg|Self-portrait with Shaded Eyes, 1634. Private collection. File:Rembrandt self-portrait 1635.jpeg|Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet, 1635, Buckland Abbey, Devon. A traditional attribution, that was rejected in 1968, then returned in 2013. File:Rembrandt - Rembrandt and Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son - Google Art Project.jpg|"Self-Portrait" as the Prodigal Son, with Saskia, , Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. That his wife Saskia was used as the model is very likely; the identification of the man is less certain. File:Rembrandt - Self-portrait with a Helmet.jpg|Portrait of Rembrandt with Gorget and Helmet, 1634. Staatliche Museen, Kassel. Debated authorship. File:Selfportrait Rembrandt1641.jpg|, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena. The authenticity of this work has been questioned; Carel Fabritius has been proposed. File:Rembrandt Self-portrait (Wallace).jpg|Self-Portrait in a Black Cap, . Wallace Collection, London File:Rembrandt, autoritratto col tocco su sfondo architettonico, 1639 02.jpg|Painted over a biblical scene, only the head and collar are by Rembrandt, Perhaps 1639. Louvre Paris. File:Self-portrait at 34 by Rembrandt.jpg|Self-portrait, 1640, wearing a costume in the style of over a century earlier. The pose relates to his etching of 1639 (below) and the Titian portrait A Man with a Quilted Sleeve. National Gallery, London File:1976.90 autorretrato-gorra-dos-cadenas.jpg|Self-portrait wearing a hat and two Chains, , Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. File:Rembrandt - Self-portrait with Beret and Red Cloak - Karlsruhe.jpg|1645, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe The last painted self-portrait until 1652. File:Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Large Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg|Self Portrait, oil on canvas, 1652. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The first for several years. As in the drawing of the same year, Rembrandt wears his working clothes, except perhaps for his hat, which draws on historical styles and earlier portraits. File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 132.jpg|KHM Vienna, , oil on walnut, cut down in size. Debated authorship. File:Rembrandt aged51.jpg|1659?, on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 130.jpg|alt=https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/archivedsite/exhibitions/rembrandt/self_1658.htm|Self-Portrait, 1658, Frick Collection, New York File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg|Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, 1659. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. File:Rembrant Self-Portrait, 1660.jpg|Self Portrait, 1660. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City File:Rembrandt, Auto-portrait, 1660.jpg|Self Portrait at the Easel, 1660. Louvre Museum, Paris. File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Zelfportret als de apostel Paulus - Google Art Project.jpg|Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul, 1661. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. File:Rembrandt van Rijn 142 version 02.jpg|Self Portrait as Zeuxis, . One of 2 painted self-portraits in which Rembrandt is turned to the left. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne. File:Rembrandt Self-portrait (Kenwood).jpg|Self-Portrait with Two Circles, 1665–69. Kenwood House, London. The meaning of the circles remains enigmatic. The palette was originally on the left, as he would have seen it in his mirror. File:Rembrandt Self-portrait (Mauritshuis).jpg|1669, Mauritshuis, The Hague. File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 135.jpg|Self-Portrait at the Age of 63 - Dated 1669, the year he died, though he looks much older in other portraits. National Gallery, London. File:Rembrandt, Self-portrait, 1668–1669, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.jpg|1668–69, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence ==Etchings==

Ernst van de Wetering divides the 31 etchings into categories; there "are perhaps only four that were considered by Rembrandt himself as 'official' self-portraits of himself intended for wider dissemination". These are B7, B19, B21 and B22, stretching between 1631 and 1648. There are a number (7 or 8) of what seem to be abandoned attempts at such portraits around the same times, some then used as etching "study sheets". Then there are 10 "early studies in etching technique", most very rare, five "studies in expression", which he distinguishes from the three tronies, finished images using Rembrandt's own features in historical costume. While the earliest etchings are very rare, many others that are not "official" portraits survive in large numbers, and certainly reached the market of collectors. He notes that such aspects of the painted portraits as historical dress, poses recalling famous Renaissance portraits, a double portrait with Saskia, and portraits in his studio working clothes, are all seen in the etchings before they appear in painted self-portraits. As noted above, there are only two sketchy etchings after 1648, and there are no etched equivalents of the great painted self-portraits of the 1650s and 1660s. With Bartsch catalogue numbers. File:B005 Rembrandt.jpg|B5, c. 1628, ii of two states. On an abandoned plate. File:B027 Rembrandt.jpg|B27, about 1628. Only three impressions survive File:Rembrandtnarizancha.jpg|B4, c. 1628. Already wearing historical dress. File:B008 Rembrandt.jpg|B8, c. 1631, 6 states, the earliest with a much larger plate. Apparently an abandoned attempt at a half-length portrait such as B7. File:B009 Rembrandt.jpg|B9, c. 1628, 6 states File:B010 Rembrandt.jpg|B10, 1630, 3 states, one of van de Wetering's "studies in expression". File:Rembrandtgorr.jpg|B12, , 4 impressions survive File:Self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn 1629.jpg|B338, 1629, one of two impressions, here with pen additions, British Museum, also Rijksmuseum. File:B174 Rembrandt.jpg|B174, 1630, Beggar seated on a bank. Probably using Rembrandt's features, but not really a self-portrait. File:B013 Rembrandt.jpg|B13, 1630, state 3/3, one of van de Wetering's "studies in expression". File:Rembrandt van Rijn 175.jpg|B1, c. 1630 File:Rembrandt Self-portrait in a cap01.jpg|B316, 1630, 6 states, one of van de Wetering's "studies in expression". File:Self-portrait in a Cap, Laughing by Rembrandt RP-P-OB-687.jpg|B316, state i, Rijksmuseum File:Self Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn 1630.jpg|B316, state ii, British Museum File:B007 Rembrandt.jpg|B7, 1631, 11 states, perhaps over some years. Only the head is done in i–iv, and some impressions have drawn additions trying body poses. The first of the "official" etched self-portraits. File:Self portrait etching by Rembrandt circa 1629.jpg| File:1630 Rembrandt Selbstportrait mit aufgerissenen Augen anagoria.JPG|B320, 1630, one of van de Wetering's "studies in expression". File:B024 Rembrandt.jpg|B24, 1630 File:Rembrandt - Autorretrato com boné puxado para a frente, 1629-33.jpg|B319, 6 states File:B15 Rembrandt.jpg|B15, 1631 File:B363 Rembrandt.jpg|B363, c. 1632. Perhaps abandoned before the hat is added, and the plate recycled for studies. File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg|B17, 1633, 2 states, one of van de Wetering's tronies. File:B002 Rembrandt.jpg|B2, c. 1634. Compare the Washington red chalk drawing below. File:B023 Rembrandt.jpg|B23, 1634, 3 states. As a rather sinister Oriental figure, with added bulk and a wart near the nose. File:Rembrandt Self-portrait with Saskia01.jpg|B19, Self-portrait with Saskia, etching, 1636, one of the "official" etched self-portraits. File:Self portrait leaning on si 373x470.jpg|B21, Self-portrait leaning on a Sill, etching, 1639, 2 states. The pose draws on portraits by Titian and Raphael, A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (NG, London) and Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (Louvre) respectively. One of the "official" etched self-portraits. The last etching but for two sketches, and one of the "official" etched self-portraits. ==Drawings==

The number of drawings now accepted is far smaller, in single figures, and none of them seem to have functioned as preliminary studies for particular paintings or prints. The standing portrait, if indeed by it is Rembrandt, may have been done for someone else's "friendship album" (album amicorum); keeping these was common in artistic and literary circles. The Washington red chalk drawing, perhaps the most finished example, is close to the etching B2 in many ways; in both Rembrandt has a cadanette or long curling lock on one side. Since these were "exclusive to aristocratic circles", it was probably invented like a piece of costume. File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Zelfportret.jpg|Self-portrait, pen and brush and ink on paper, c. 1628–1629, Rijksmuseum File:Rembrant van Rijn - Self-portrait as a young man with mouth open - BM Gg,2.253.jpg|Self-portrait as a young man with mouth open, , British Museum. It "emphasises what was to become the shameless, dominant feature of all Rembrandt's self-portraits, the nose." File:Rembrandt Self-portrait (1636).jpg|1636, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, pen and brush in brown ink. The "highly informal mode of dress", with open shirt, is unique in his self-portraits. File:Rembrandt van Rijn - Zelfportret, ca.1637 (National Gallery of Art).jpg|Red chalk, , National Gallery of Art, Washington. The drawing seems to be done largely from the top down, without sharpening the chalk. File:Sp drawing 1652.jpg|c. 1655, Rembrandthuis. Famous, but Ernst van de Wetering doubts it is authentic, instead copying B22 and a painting. File:Rembrandt 207.jpg|1657-58, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam == On screen ==

A short film from 1956 by Bert Haanstra showed a chronological sequence of the paintings, with the eyes always in the same position, and the different images dissolving into each other. There is also Le miroir des paradoxes. Autoportraits, film by Alain Jaubert from the Palettes series (1991). ==See also==