No artist has left a bolder or more discerning personal testament than Rembrandt van Rijn. More than 80 self-portraits – sketches, paintings and etchings dating from the outset of his career in the 1620s to the year of his death in 1669 – show the artist in physiognomy and costume studies, posing as various characters, covert in huge history paintings or in rigorous self-reflection of his likeness.

Schirmer/Mosel. Ed by Pascal Bonafoux. Translated from the French by Matthias Wolf. 160 pages, 111 colour plates. Size: 17 x 20.5 cm, hardcover. German edition.