Shown from the hips up, a man with pale, peachy skin, dressed in a black suit and tall hat, looks at us from in front of a dark brown background in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s body is angled to our right, almost in profile, but he turns his head to look at us from the corners of his eyes under lifted brows. He has rounded nose, a thin mustache over wide, pink lips, and a deep cleft in his chin. His face is fleshy under his eyes and along his jawline, and he has a slight double chin. The wide brim of his tall black hat casts a shadow across his eyes. Shoulder-length, brown,…
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Portrait of a Gentleman with a Tall Hat and Gloves

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

c. 1656/1658

Medium
oil on canvas transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 99.5 × 82.5 cm (39 3/16 × 32 1/2 in.) ; framed: 132.08 × 114.94 × 13.97 cm (52 × 45 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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