A Man Laughing
by REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn, Oil on copper, 16 x 13 cm
Catalogue number: Bredius 134.
The sense of humour entered Rembrandt’s repertoire rather early. The head of a laughing man was a motif that went out into the world under his name in prints of about 1630 by his associate Jan Joris van Vliet.