c. 1628-1650
Bust of a Man in a Turban
Rembrandt Harmensz. van RijnDutch, 1606 - 1669
This small panel depicts figures wearing Persian-influenced costumes. Not a portrait of an individual, this is instead a character type belonging to a genre that art historians have come to call the tronie, after the Dutch word for “head.” Rembrandt and his contemporary Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607–1674) were instrumental in creating a market for tronies, especially those that featured exotically garbed Oriental subjects.
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