Rijksmuseum
Bald man with open mouth, looking down: bust
Creator
RembrandtDutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669) · 1606–1669
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- Object type
- print†
- Dating
- c. 1631
- Material
- paper†
- Place
- Netherlands†
Also in Rijksmuseum’s record. The museum’s own label for these fields has not been confirmed yet, so each is named by its field in the museum’s data.
- dc:creator
- Rembrandt van Rijn†
- edmfp:technique
- etching
- engraving
† LinkedCulture’s stored copy of the museum’s words; separators may differ slightly from the museum’s page.
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From LinkedCulture
This small etching captures something almost startling: a heavyset old man, head bowed, mouth slightly open, one hand raised to his cheek, lost entirely in his own world. Rembrandt van Rijn made it around 1631 in the Netherlands, when he was only 25, using dense cross-hatching to carve shadow into the man's face while bare paper becomes the pale light on his skull. It belongs to a tradition of head studies called tronies, which Rembrandt used as a laboratory for understanding emotion, age, and light. The result is a face that feels genuinely unguarded, even now.
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- Object ID
- RP-P-OB-652
- Object Type
- print
- Rijksmuseum field “Object type” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- Creator
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Rijksmuseum field
dc:creator(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- Rijksmuseum field
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Rijksmuseum field “Place” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · A place label, not a culture.
- Medium
- paper
- Rijksmuseum field “Material” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- Tags
- etching
- engraving
- Rijksmuseum field
edmfp:technique(museum’s label not yet confirmed) · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- Date
- c. 1631
- Rijksmuseum field “Dating” · copied as is
- Begin Year
- 1631
- Rijksmuseum field “Dating” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- End Year
- 1631
- Rijksmuseum field “Dating” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
The museum’s own record has not been captured for this object yet, so the museum fields shown above are limited to values LinkedCulture stored unchanged.
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