The plate was not part of any of the early sales or collections and is probably not in existence anymore.

Of all self-portraits Rembrandt made in his early years, still living in Leiden, this is the most sketchy one, resembling the drawings he made in the same period. Contrary to other portraits of these years, the eyes are hardly visible.

The shadow over Rembrandt’s eye is very similar to that in two painted self-portraits, in the Rijksmuseum (Corpus A14) and in the Alte Pinakothek (Corpus A19).
Biörklund points at a painting dated 1629, now in Gotha (Bredius 2), which was etched, in reverse and enlarged by Johannes van Vliet in 1634 (B 14).

Münz doubts whether the original (of which no impressions are known) was by Rembrandt or by Jan Lievens, considering the etching to be closely related to Lievens’ style.
The plate is not by Rembrandt according to Singer.

All authors list one state only.

Very few impressions of this etching are known. NH and WB list only three impressions, in the Teylers Museum (Haarlem), the British Museum and the Albertina (R104). According to NU and BB there are also prints in the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK), not listed by NH.

H 3, BB 28-1, G -, M 26, Mz 5, RA 104-105, Cl 27, W 27, Bl 205, Du 27, CD 4
Rembrandt by himself 1999, p. 97; Baas 2015, p. 64-65;