c. 1655-1669
Head of an Old Man
This head study exists in other workshop versions, all of which presumably descend from a lost original by Rembrandt likely painted about 1630. The copies may have arisen from the studio practice of training through replication of the master’s studies. Another Rembrandt follower, Carel Fabritius (Dutch, 1622–1654), used the same head for the executioner in a Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (c. 1640) now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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