Clement de Jonghe, Printseller
Medium
Etching and drypoint in black on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20.8 × 26.1 cm (8 1/4 × 10 5/16 in.); Sheet: 21.2 × 16.5 cm (8 3/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
18495
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Rembrandt altered the printing matrix for this portrait to recast his characterization of friend and dealer, Clement de Jonghe, who later took possession of many of the artist’s copperplates.
About the Artist
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...