This small black and white painting (known as a grisaille) was not made for sale. It is a full-scale preparatory study for one of Rembrandt’s etchings – the only known example of such a work.
Artworks by Old Masters continued to exhibit strength at major auctions in London this week, led by the nearly £11 million (US$14 million) sale of The Adoration of the Kings by Rembrandt Harmensz.
Rembrandt is 63 and this is one of three self portraits he painted in the months before his death in 1669. About 80 self portraits – including sketches, etchings and paintings – survive from his ...
the art was created pixel-by-pixel in Rembrandt’s style, using the scanned photos as a reference for the details and colours used in the original. “Our attempt here is to make a best guess ...