Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, ca. 1634
Etching, 1 3/4 x 2 in. (Bartsch 2, Rovinski 2, Hind 57). A small etching nearly the size of a postage stamp, also referred to as Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it was completed in 1633 when the artist was 27 years of age.
The small work was affixed to the side of a carved oak cabinet in the Dutch Room beneath Rembrandt’s painted Self-Portrait of 1929.