Beggar Seated Warming His Hands at a Chafing Dish
ca. 1630
Medium
Etching; second state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/4 in. × 2 in. (8.2 × 5.1 cm) Plate: 3 1/16 × 1 7/8 in. (7.7 × 4.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.72.157
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About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...