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Rembrandt van Rijn

A Young Man with a Chain

c. 1629 or 1632
oil on wood
57.8 × 43.8 cm (22.8 × 17.2 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Once identified as Rembrandt himself, the sitter is now considered an anonymous study of human character.

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