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Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul
Also titled Zelfportret als de apostel Paulus
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1661
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 91 cm x width 77 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- 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
Rembrandt is 55 years old in this self-portrait, and he still looks at himself candidly. Here he assumes the guise of a personage from the Bible, the Apostle Paul. The sword protruding from his cloak and the manuscript in his hands are the apostle’s customary attributes. By using his own face, Rembrandt encouraged the viewer to engage personally with the saint.
