Kop van een man met bontmuts, schreeuwend
ca. 1629
Medium
etching
Dimensions
35; 28
About this artwork
height 35 mm x width 28 mm
Art Historical Context
In the early days of his career, Rembrandt Rijn created *Kop van een man bontmuts, schuwend* (Head of a Man with Fur Cap Screaming) around 1629, when he was just 23 still based in Leiden. This diminutive etching, measuring a mere 35 mm high by 28 mm wide—smaller than a modern postage stamp—showcases the young artist's prodigious talent for capturing raw human emotion in miniature form. Rembrandt etched the image onto a copper plate, using acid to bite fine lines that convey the man's wild, open-mouthed scream and the textured fur of his cap. Even at this scale, his masterful handling of light...
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...