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Self-Portrait (etching)

Self-Portrait (etching)

Image: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

A postage-stamp-sized Rembrandt self-portrait etching, the smallest of the objects taken in the 1990 Gardner heist.

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Dossier
Artist
Rembrandt
Created
1634
Medium
Etching on paper
Status
Missing
Value
Undisclosed
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