Rembrandt van Rijn (and/or studio) - 'Tronie' of an Old Man 1630-1631
'Tronie' of an Old Man 1630-1631
47x39cm oil/canvas
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery:
This painting is a ‘tronie’, a study of a characterful old man’s facial expression. Its resemblance to portraits Rembrandt painted of his father, Harmen Gerritsz, led people to believe that this was another portrait of him. For many years, the painting was even attributed to Rembrandt. But conservation treatment (in 1999) revealed that it had in fact been made by one of Rembrandt’s better students, who had taken one of his teacher’s paintings as his example.