Man with a Steel Gorget

Style of Rembrandt Dutch
Not on view
Rembrandt's authorship was doubted as early as the 1920s. In subject and style the painting is typical of the master's immediate circle in the 1640s; attributions to Govert Flinck and to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, both of whom studied under Rembrandt in the 1630s, have been proposed in recent years. The dashing figure's gesture may have been adopted from that of the captain in The Night Watch of 1642.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Man with a Steel Gorget
  • Artist: Style of Rembrandt (Dutch, second or third quarter 17th century)
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 37 1/8 x 30 5/8 in. (94.3 x 77.8 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
  • Object Number: 14.40.601
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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