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Rembrandt, age 22 to 63.
Rembrandt painted himself more than forty times. Here are fourteen of the paintings in date order, lined up by the eyes and morphed into one another: four decades of the same face, from a young man in Leiden to the last year of his life.
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The paintings
All fourteen are in the public domain. The images come from Wikimedia Commons; follow a link for the full-resolution image and its source.
| Year | Age | Painting | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1628 | 22 | Self-portrait with tousled hair | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 1629 | 23 | Self-portrait, age 23 | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
| 1630 | 24 | Self-portrait | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
| 1632 | 26 | Self-portrait with a broad-brimmed hat | Private collection |
| 1634 | 28 | Self-portrait with velvet beret | Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
| 1640 | 34 | Self-portrait at the age of 34 | National Gallery, London |
| c. 1645 | 39 | Self-portrait with beret and red cloak | Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
| 1652 | 46 | Large self-portrait | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
| c. 1655 | 49 | Small self-portrait | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
| 1658 | 52 | Self-portrait | The Frick Collection, New York |
| 1659 | 53 | Self-portrait | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| 1660 | 54 | Self-portrait | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| c. 1665 | 59 | Self-portrait with two circles | Kenwood House, London |
| 1669 | 63 | Self-portrait at the age of 63 | National Gallery, London |
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Ages are the age Rembrandt turned that year (he was born on 15 July 1606). Dates marked "c." are the museums' estimates.
How the reel was made
With the tool on this page, in a browser, with no editing afterwards. A face model found each painted face and 478 points on it: the outline, eyes, brows, nose and lips. Each painting was rotated, scaled and shifted so the eyes land in the same place, then the points of one face were moved smoothly to the points of the next while the two images crossfaded. That's the morph. Painted faces are found as reliably as photographed ones as long as the face is lit and turned towards the viewer.
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