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Where in the world are Rembrandt’s self-portraits?

Picture Key for Rembrandt Self Portraits

The source for the categorisation of established self-portraits is the Rembrandt Research Project: http://rembrandtdatabase.org/literature/corpus

The image collates 31 of the 32 paintings that are recognised by the Rembrandt Research Project as being by Rembrandt himself (obviously in some cases this oversimplifies a classification based on balance of probabilities etc) and that are in Rembrandt’s ‘classic’ self-portrait pose; it excludes images of Rembrandt that are part of a scene with other people or where he is not looking at the viewer and/or has obtrusive non-painting props (the 32nd painting is c.1629 Munich and is very similar to c.1628 Amsterdam).

Adjustments have been made to relative scale and colour and light balance and in some cases the outer limits of the hat have been erased for reasons of space!

Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en

Berlin: Gemäldegalerie, Berlin https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/gemaeldegalerie/home.html

Boston ISG: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum https://www.gardnermuseum.org/#gref

Boston MFA : Museum of Fine Arts https://www.mfa.org/

Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz Musuem https://www.wallraf.museum/en/collections/

Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/collections

Florence: Uffizi https://www.uffizi.it/en/the-uffizi

Glasgow: Burrell Collection https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/the-burrell-collection

Hague: Mauritshuis https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/

Indianapolis Museum of Art http://collection.imamuseum.org/

Karlsruhe: Staatliche Kunsthalle https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/en/

Kassel: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister https://altemeister.museum-kassel.de/