Portrait Of The Artist (Rembrandt) As A Young Card Sharp
"[It] is the earliest depiction of Rembrandt as a hopeful teenager, not as he would have liked to have been seen but how he looked to a fellow art student in Amsterdam. Jan Lievens painted Rembrandt at the age of 16, as the central figure in The Cardplayers, which is believed to have been completed in 1623-24." The Independent (UK) 06/29/09

Posted July 1, 2009 09:34 PM