Self-Portrait Etching at a Window

Rembrandt · 1648

What you practise here

Etched portrait: cross-hatching and shadow

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Rembrandt - Circle of - Sleeping Lion, NMH 20091863 The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of a Woman Rembrandt lion asleep, w9590 Rembrandt - Lion couché, 13-611257 Self-Portrait