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Old Man with a Gold Chain by Rembrandt
Date: 2008/Aug/21 Thu
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669
Old Man with a Gold Chain, 1631
Oil on panel
Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Kimball Collection, 1922.4467
DESCRIPTION:
Throughout his career, Rembrandt painted masterful studies of single figures, conveying character through dramatic costume and lighting. Here the craggy features of the old man, a model who appears frequently in Rembrandt's early work, contrast poignantly with his worldly trappings— a gold chain steel gorget, and plumed beret. The way that the ambitious young artist conveyed a sense of arrested movement in this powerful figure suggests that the work was painted in 1631, just after he left his native Leiden to make his name in thriving commercial center of Amsterdam.
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