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The third Oriental head
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This set of etchings is traditionally called the ‘Four Oriental Heads’. Rembrandt did not etch them from life, but rather after prints his Leiden friend and colleague Jan Lievens made around 1631. He did not do this simply because he admired Lievens’s work. On three of the four prints, Rembrandt noted that he had geretuckeerd (meaning both adapted and improved) them.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDe derde oosterse kop. 1635. Rembrandt van Rijn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
