Rembrandt van Rijn - Old Man with a Gold Chain 1631
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Old Man with a Gold Chain 1631
83x75cm oil/panel
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
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From Art Institute of Chicago:
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 ambitious young artist conveyed a sense of arrested movement in this powerful figure which was probably painted in 1631, just after he left his native Leiden to make his name in the thriving commercial center of Amsterdam.
— Permanent collection label