Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas This portrait has generally been

This portrait has generally been regarded as a self-portrait by Jan Lievens

It was acquired in 1719 by the French Regent

More than three hundred and fifty years after she was painted - Rembrandt's ability to conjure up the sense of a living being out of paint can still astound

repeats the nude figure

Self-portrait Type:unstretched canvas This portrait has generally beenThis portrait has generally been regarded as a self portrait by Jan Lievens, presumably on the grounds of a certain resemblance to Lievens's features as recorded in Van Dyck's 'Iconographie'. The style, however, suggests a Flemish painter such as Jan Cossiers. Cossiers worked for Rubens in the 1630s, developing a free and fluent style. He painted genre subjects, and became one of Antwerp's leading religious painters.