at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,[3] and from 2017 to 2019 it was on loan to the Leiden Collection as it toured the world in museum exhibitions.

X-radiographs of the self-portrait show that Lievens made "transformative revisions to his appearance" in the portrait several times.

He also changed the hair in the painting, adding flowing locks on the left, possibly to emulate Flemish or English courtly hairstyles.

In the exhibition brochure, titled Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, American art historian Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. describes the self-portrait as "handsome and assured".

He also stated the self-portrait revealed Lievens's "ability to evoke the essence of a person through features alone".