Old Man with a Gold Chain, Rembrandt van Rijn

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31A2422head turned to the right61B(+53)31A2211face41D221(BERET)(+44)45C22:41D222(HALSBERG)
Holder's headings
portraits: male subject, chains, portraits, Century of Progress, world's fairs, Chicago World's Fairs, men, black (color), hats, jewelry, fashion
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feather, gorget, chain, Rembrandt's father

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Credit
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection. CC0.
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CC0-1.0
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api.artic.edu artworks api: is_public_domain=true on artwork 95998 (read 2026-08-27)
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https://www.artic.edu/artworks/95998
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Old Man with a Gold Chain, Rembrandt van Rijn
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  1. Seven Discourses on Art · Joshua, Sir Reynolds

    By this mode of reasoning Rembrandt has a higher place than Raffaelle. But a very little reflection will serve to show us that these particularities cannot be nature: for how can that be the nature of man, in which no two individuals are the same? It plainly appears that as a work is conducted under the influence of general ideas or partial it is principally to be considered as the effect of a good or a bad taste. As beauty therefore does not consist in taking what lies immediately before
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  2. principles of art history · heinrich wolfflin

    PAINTING 95 Rembrandt The great Ecce Homo (etching of 1650) is an analogous case. As is known, the schema of the composition dates back to a Cinquecentist, Lucas van Leyden. A house wall and a terrace before it, seen frontally; people who have taken up their stand side by side in rows on and in front of the terrace—how are we to get a baroque picture out of all that? We learn with Rembrandt that it is not the subject but the treatment which matters. While Lucas van Leyden exhausts
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