Bust of a Man (Rembrandt's Father?),

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Bust of a Man (Rembrandt's Father?),

Rembrandt van RijnLinkedCulture matchlcp-d6807541bb3d

Date
1630
Medium
Etching
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
55112

This print belong to a genre called tronies, or character heads-usually anonymous figures portrayed with penetrating expressions and fanciful costumes. Although artists made tronies primarily to practice facial expressions, collectors prized them for their inventiveness, evocative techniques, and convincing emotional depth. Scholars are fairly confident that the subject of Bust of a Man (Rembrandt's Father?) is not the artist's father, because it does not resemble the one surviving drawing Rembrandt made of him. Netherlands, Europe

View at Minneapolis Institute of Art ↗

The authoritative record is held by Minneapolis Institute of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.tszid4S3ZfvC1pKt.WILFBxZpDfUeJ4qZRJIxLnCVRJvRILD04RbpH65FAlw63nnRLZPH1IhFOYK-i5wwo5okxIclk1FidFOdxcAy5nl_gxqh1aWot7wL8MvqQ1hpjJjl1jjkvjUPeGjo7rJdHj4WiJG3XLdMHQVfdODXDYSV4it9iIdUwLHPMMecDFRtwtEoVyaF8JV0BYoBSUuR-K9t3AGgDqq0ZivKbMDr2Yimcf3Yy617F5l09Prjpu06ogcbK3VPCe8RepZO7i3njUVIQyLzQ7c3oASee at Minneapolis Institute of Art QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.M5QXYtK-cADtdpLv.Y6r-qv47YlIVCA-Oq1o2pRgpLSHm-KNeFk7IQew2xIl7w1Zdlt--f0_LKR-NR8D1-kG766D1EFNb56_Ig3-pGfGrltHoSJpvtqUSpxDNB5SJBRYDlrdVjMS1U0netBfiTvtSyJtjhaQ4hbrFNS4zsI6NGfM1beDq9sH8nkyA4LfljuQJslyT2yY5euAA-lipLr00uCetX5O8Q-EXqRmKWHCDD0RDUKGKUsV3gdXkof0Ur9Tt8IuSA6iPwJMFOi0P8BuNYRfxI73ClLVYiJ86
Open this page
See at Minneapolis Institute of Art

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line
The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Minneapolis Institute of Art and other institutions.