Final Published Work: Head of Menem Ben Israel
Medium
Charcoal, with stumping, heightened with traces of white chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
40.1 × 26.6 cm (15 13/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83916
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...