Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "29980",
    "label": "Head of an Old Man",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.298"
}

{
    "id": "29980",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.298",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Head of an Old Man",
    "description": "This broadly brushed study was made in Rembrandt's workshop in the late 1630s by a student. There are other studies of this man's head from different directions. Rembrandt operated a school within his workshop, and many young men studied with him to learn his expressive style. They set up their easels in a circle around the model-perhaps a poor man from the neighborhood who had an interesting face.Rembrandt was one of the first to see the faces of the elderly, reflecting a lifetime of experience, as wonderful subjects. With loose brush strokes and selective highlighting, the painter explores the sitter's lined, weathered face.",
    "provenance": "Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1635-1640 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.298",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.298_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.298_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.298_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.6,
            "height": 17.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 1/8 x 6 15/16 in. (20.6 x 17.7 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "oil on panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2568"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_37.298_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "343b0e8682c9218e"
}