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Four Men Standing, Wearing Hats
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Four men are deep in conversation with one another. Rembrandt recorded them quickly and deftly, possibly drawing them on the street in a sketchbook. He could also have committed them to his prodigious visual memory, and depicted them back in his workshop. Rembrandt collected these kinds of scenes as inspiration for his often-crowded historical compositions.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineFour Men Standing, Wearing Hats. c. 1650. Rembrandt van Rijn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
