Portrait of a man or self-portrait

Portrait of a Man or Self-portrait from 1687 by Nicolaes Maes may be a self-portrait showing the artist in his mature years. If so, it would join the important tradition of Dutch artists' self-portraiture that includes Rembrandt's famous series. Maes trained with Rembrandt in Amsterdam in the early 1650s before establishing himself as an independent master. His mature portrait style absorbed Flemish elegance — producing fashionable likenesses with looser brushwork and warmer flesh tones that ...

The portrait is rendered with Maes's characteristic technique, the possible self-portrait showing the same naturalistic precision he brought to his commissioned likenesses.