Portrait of Ephraim Bueno
Also titled Portret van Ephraïm Bueno
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1645 - 1647
- Medium
- oil paint (paint), oak (wood)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Ephraim Bueno (1599–1665), a Jewish physician, poet and translator from Portugal, probably belonged to Rembrandt’s circle of friends. Rembrandt painted his portrait as a preparatory study for a print. He concentrated on the face and the division of light and dark; the rest was less important for the purposes of this sketch. This explains the fairly coarse brushstrokes for the clothing and hands.
