Rembrandt van Rijn
36 pieces 5 collections Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
A miller's son from Leiden who became the great painter of Amsterdam, and its most restless printmaker. He used the copper plate like a sketchbook, going back to the same plate again and again, and painted, drew and etched his own face for forty years with nothing hidden. Every piece here is in the public domain, from museums that share their collections openly: the Rijksmuseum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
