Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet is an oil painting attributed to the Dutch painter Rembrandt.

[2] The self-portrait shows Rembrandt at half length facing towards the right, wearing a velvet cape decorated with gold embroidery over a gorget.

He is wearing a black velvet beret shading his eyes and from the front of it, another medallion supports two vertical ostrich feathers.

He wears a velvet cap with two tall coloured ostrich feathers fastened with a gold clasp.

A short purplish-grey cape, with a broad edging embroidered in gold and fringed, hangs open over the yellowish costume, showing a steel gorget and the shirt-collar.

Bright light falls from the left at top on the plumes in the cap, the lower part of the face, and the right shoulder.

The Rembrandt Research Project came into being in order to confirm or deny such claims of rejection or attribution by using forensic and historical evidence.

According to Ernst van de Wetering, who was on Gerson's team in 1968, he still shares their original concerns about the painting, but the attribution to Rembrandt can be made with much more certainty today based both on historical grounds and x-ray evidence.

The self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet was first attributed to Rembrandt by Kurt Bauch (1966, nr.

[5] He made a small self-portrait of himself on a balcony wearing the feathered bonnet and only the top of his head is visible.

[6] Van de Wetering made his tentative re-attribution after studying the x-ray in 2005, but it was only after recently visiting the painting at Buckland Abbey that he could state with certainty that his 2005 claim was indeed true.