Mieux qu'un selfie

In this episode, the children discuss Rembrandt Harmenzoon Van Rijn's very serious self-portrait. This painter did many famous paintings. He had another passion, printmaking. At that time, to be really fashionable, you had to paint or engrave portraits. So Rembrandt did a lot of them. He is often his own model... this is called a self-portrait. He loved to dress up and he loved to use his own face to study human expressions. He would even make emoji faces. His most expressive self-portrait is this engraving.