Self-Portrait with Beret ☴ Rembrandt ☷ Canvas celestial adding waving banners and the

adding waving banners and the liberty poles

a world in which humans have succumbed to temptations that led to evil and reap eternal damnation

that my pond had become enchanted

at a time when he himself was in poor health

Gray Weather (1907

Self-Portrait with Beret ☴ Rembrandt ☷ Canvas celestial adding waving banners and theSelf Portrait with Beret and Turned Up Collar (1659) by Rembrandt van Rijn is one of over 40 self portraits he created. Rembrandt is seated, wearing a fur cloak, his hands clasped in his lap. His face is well lit with detailed brushwork, while his hands are in shadowed, blurred brushstrokes. It is noted as a self portrayal in which one can see "the stresses and strains of a life compounded of creative triumphs and personal and financial reverses."