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pression, though proud, is not at all pompous. He manages, through the bravado and refinery, to remain true to himself in this work, creating the image that he has of himself at the height of all of his great achievement.

Certainly Rembrandt was among the best-known and most prolific artists of his generation. In addition to his painting, he produced nearly three hundred etchings and drypoints between 1626 and 1665. No other Dutch painter of that period produced such a large or

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