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REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn: Abraham Francen

🖼 Abraham Francen, c. 1657
Etching, drypoint and burin, second state of ten
158 × 208 cm
Haarlem, Netherlands

A solemnly dressed merchant sits three-quarter length against dark ochre tones, rendered with Rembrandt's characteristic chiaroscuro and loose brushwork. The portrait exemplifies 17th-century Dutch bourgeois portraiture, capturing individual psychology through light and shadow.

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