Self-portrait, Frowning
Also titled Zelfportret met gefronst voorhoofd
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1630
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 75 mm x width 75 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Already in 1604 the artists’ biographer Karel van Mander advised artists to look in the mirror and practise in the rendering of states of mind. This is what Rembrandt does here. He looks angry, horrified, smiling. Each of these emotions recur in his work. Each of these emotions would recur later in his work.
