Rembrandt painted a number of paintings of himself, all containing what title?
Self-portraits by Rembrandt there are no etched equivalents of the great painted self-portraits of the 1550s and 1560s. With Bartsch catalogue numbers. The number of drawings now accepted is far smaller, in single figures, and none of them seem to have functioned as preliminary studies for particular paintings or prints. The standing portrait, if indeed by it is Rembrandt, may have been done for someone else's "friendship album" ("album amicorum"); keeping these was common in artistic and literary circles. The Washington red chalk drawing, perhaps the most finished example, is close to the etching B2 in many ways; in both Rembrandt has a
Head of Christ (Rembrandt) Head of Christ (Rembrandt) The Head of Christ is a 1648 painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. There are multiple versions of Rembrandt's "Head of Christ" which compose an international collection of paintings in the possession of a number of different cultural institutions and individuals. During the course of the 19th-century it was supposed that these similar heads were based on a "Jewish model" (leading some to suppose that Rembrandt himself was Jewish, since he lived in what was considered the "Jewish quarter" of Amsterdam). These heads in varying poses were possibly