Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap

• Object Name: print
• Artist: Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
• Date Made: 1640
• Culture/Nationality: Dutch
• Materials: ink on paper; etching
• Edition Number: State II
• Measurements: overall: 15.6 x 13.9 cm; image: 14.4 x 13.5 cm
• Credit Line: Bequest of Dr. J.M. MacEachran
• Accession No.: 1971.5.5
• Description: In the years after 1630 Rembrandt drew a series of red chalk drawings of imposing old men. Some of these subjects were later used in paintings of biblical subjects or of meditating old men. Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap is one of several etchings closely linked to this series of chalk drawings. The old man here is likely the same model who sat for a number of figure studies of the same period.
  
  The plate used to print this etching was altered three times as it passed through the hands of a number of printers. It is likely that this print dates back to the 17th century and was printed from the second stage of the plate.¹
  
  ¹Information in a letter to the University of Alberta, from A. V. Griffiths, The British Museum, London, June 22, 1977.
• Description: In the years after 1630 Rembrandt drew a series of red chalk drawings of imposing old men. Some of these subjects were later used in paintings of biblical subjects or... more »
• Subject Terms: hat, male, man, old