Nude Man Seated before a Curtain
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 6 7/16 x 3 3/4 in. (16.3 x 9.6 cm) sheet: 6 15/16 x 4 1/4 in. (17.6 x 10.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Elkind Gifts; and Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, 2010
Accession Number
2010.83
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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...