Shown from the waist up, a bearded man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a black wide-brimmed hat and jacket, and a broad, layered, white collar, holds up a piece of rolled up paper in this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders are angled to our right but he turns his face to look at us with dark gray eyes. He has a bumped nose, and his full pink lips are slightly parted. There are bags under his heavy-lidded eyes. A light brown mole marks his soft cheek, on our left, and there are jowls along his jawline. His honey-brown goatee is trimmed to a point, and his brown curly hair falls to his…
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Man with a Sheet of Music

painter Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

1633

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 66 × 48 cm (26 × 18 7/8 in.) ; framed: 97.79 × 79.38 × 12.7 cm (38 1/2 × 31 1/4 × 5 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
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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