Why it matters
The young Rembrandt's face is half lost in shadow beneath his dishevelled hair, an early exercise in light and dark. It is his earliest known self-portrait.
Did you know?
- No 17th-century painter is known to have made more self-portraits than Rembrandt.
- He painted about 40 self-portraits and made 31 etched ones.
- The Rijksmuseum acquired it in 1960.
Based on the Wikipedia article Self-Portrait with Dishevelled Hair (CC BY-SA 4.0).
