Old Man with Beard, Fur Cap, and Velvet Cloak is a 1632 ink by Rembrandt, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of an older man with a long white beard and a fur hat. He’s dressed in a heavy velvet cloak, sitting with his hands resting on his chest. The lines in the print are scratchy and detailed, especially around his face and clothes. The artist used a technique that lets them layer lines for texture, like the fur and fabric. This is an etching, which means they scratched into a metal plate to create the image. Check out more about etching to see how artists make prints like this.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
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