Tuesday, November 18, 2014

REMBRANDT van RIJN 1606-1669

Self-Portrait

No.222
During his lifetime Rembrandt made around 70 self-portraits. This one he painted in 1665. By that time he had lost 3 of his sons in infancy, his wife Saskia had died in 1642 when she was just 30 years old, and he had been declared bankrupt in 1656.

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