In Rembrandt’s striking Self Portrait in a Cap, Open Mouthed, 1630, the artist’s playful spirit almost jumps out from the page towards us. Self Portrait In A Cap, Open Mouthed, 1630 Self Portrait in a Cap, Open Mouthed by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630, etching, via Ashmolean Museum, Oxford This painting was likely to be a showpiece aimed at attracting future clients, and it demonstrates the scope and ambition of the young Rembrandt at the start of his long and successful career.ģ. Dramatic backlighting casts his face into obscuring shadow, as highlights catch the tip of his nose and wisps of his hair, demonstrating the artist’s early fascination with chiaroscuro modelling effects that would play out in his most famous large paintings.
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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. Please check your inbox to activate your subscription Thank you! Let’s take a look at some of the most memorable examples through the years.
He undoubtedly studied the lines and contours of his face as an academic exercise, but Rembrandt’s self-portraits also tell us much about his difficult life story as it unfolded, moving through the ups and downs of love, loss, bankruptcy, and bereavement. Unlike many of the other artworks he made for private clients, the majority of Rembrandt’s self-portraits were for his own personal archive, making them all the more honest and intimate. In his trademark palette of soft browns and caramel shades, Rembrandt documented his face as it aged through time, from the fresh-faced playfulness of youth to his careworn old age. Self-portraits were a constant throughout his 40-year career he sketched, painted, and printed around 100 different versions of his own face, each one revealing a different side to his complex character. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, whose prolific career spanned a vast range of genres, including history painting, Biblical subjects, landscape, and portraiture.
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