Old Man in Profile

Old Man in Profile by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 6 5/16 x 4 5/8 in. (16 x 11.7 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Janos Scholz, 1952

Accession Number

52.214.2

Tags

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About the Artist

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 16061669

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...

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