Rembrandt Self-Portraits

Rembrandt van Rijn created in his long lifetime nearly 100 self-portraits, a stunning obsessive series unparalleled in the history of art. Here, in chronological order, are all of the known self-portraits - paintings, drawings, and etchings - which seen together present a penetrating psychological essay, a revealing study of the aging process, and a breathtaking view of one of the greatest painters in history. Beautifully reproduced together for the first time, the 97 self portraits are accompanied by an authoritative text written by a specialist in Dutch art, an extensive catalog entry on each picture, a selective bibliography, and comparative illustrations to help place the Rembrandt works in the context of the time and place in which they were created.