#14 Rembrandt van Rijn, A Beggar, Sitting on a Mound, 1630. On loan from a private collection. This print belongs among Rembrandt’s early etchings of beggars, following Lucas van Leyden and the French etcher Jacques Callot. For the face with its angry expression, Rembrandt studied his own features. Although many Netherlandish artists, and especially printmakers, had started to specialize more narrowly, Rembrandt covered a wide range of subject matter in his art.
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