Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669) | Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed, 1630 | Etching in black ink on cream laid paper | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg and her children.

"Grand Gestures: Celebrating Rembrandt," an exhibition including 33 works on paper and one etching plate from Vassar College's permanent collection, and five loaned works, including two drawings, will be on display through June 11 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. "Grand Gestures" features many of the most important etchings in the Art Center's Felix Warburg Collection of Old Master Prints, a gift to Vassar in 1941 and a highlight of the museum's permanent collection. The etching above, Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed, is one in a series of small prints from early in Rembrandt's career when the young artist mimed various emotions and preserved them in etchings.

Scholars speculate that these may have been a series of exercises in making a ready store of references for future prints and paintings. "Grand Gestures" also showcases religious scenes, landscapes, and scenes from everyday life and the theater by Rembrandt, including his most well known etching, The Hundred Guilder Print (c. 1649), a stylistically complex work featuring a throng of exquisitely detailed figures surrounding Jesus. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. (845) 437-5632; http://flac.vassar.edu