REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Sheet of studies with five heads

c. 1633
Silverpoint on prepared vellum, 134 x 80 mm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Catalogue number: Benesch 341 recto.

This is one of the few drawings by Rembrandt in metalpoint, a popular technique in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries but relatively rarely used in the seventeenth.




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