Connection: “Self-portrait at the age of 34” and “Las Meninas”

Both paintings are closely related in the period of time, and the figures in the paintings all dressed well. Even though Rembrandt is always broke because of the material he used for his paintings, he liked to dress up and depict himself as rich in his younger days. Now compared to “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez, where the people who commissioned him is actually rich, their over-the-top-ness is quite uncanny.