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Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar
Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar is a 1659 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, one of over 40 self-portraits by Rembrandt. It has been noted as a self-portrayal of subtle and somber qualities, a work in which may be seen "the stresses and strains of a life compounded of creative triumphs and personal and financial reverses". Once owned by Andrew W. Mellon, it has been in the National Gallery of
has been suggested that this difference in angle was an intentional variation from the series of self-portraits he was painting at the time.
"Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar" derives from the same period as the more finished and identically titled canvas in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. Both the clothing and physical condition of the face suggest a date close to 1659. The same clothing appears in a small, unfinished "Self-Portrait with Beret" in the Musée Granet.
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