Man in a Coat and Fur Cap Leaning against a Bank
ca. 1630
Medium
Etching, New Holl. first state of three
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed at left into subject): 4 5/16 × 3 1/16 in. (11 × 7.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin M. Breinin Gift, 2003
Accession Number
2003.224
Tags
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...