Rembrandt Laughing  1628

Intently interested in the expression of human emotion, Rembrandt often used himself as his own model in his early years as an independent master in Leiden. Here, in a small and freely painted work, he appears in the guise of a soldier, relaxed and engaging the viewer with a laugh. [br] For this sophisticated self-portrait, painted at age twenty-one or twenty-two, Rembran...