Md. Asif Uddin

Tabula XV

Self-Portrait Etching at a Window

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648

Self-Portrait Etching at a Window, Rembrandt van Rijn
Light arriving in a room where someone is working.
Artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
Date
1648
Source
Art Institute of Chicago · CC0

Rembrandt etched himself repeatedly across his working life. This one, from 1648, shows him seated at a window with a plate or drawing in front of him — the artist depicted not as a subject but as someone at work.