Artist: After Rembrandt van Rjin (1606 – 1669)
Title: The Burgomaster Six
Medium: Antique hand pulled copper plate etching on laid paper after the original by a master etcher Amand Durand (1831 – 1905).
Signature: Signed in the plate lower right.
Dimensions: Image size 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Portrait of Jan Six; whole-length, standing in a dark interior, reading a paper at a window at right.
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favored an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty.