A Bearded Man Wearing a Hat (Q21508783)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
portrait (Q134307)
artist:
no value
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
main subject:
man (Q8441)
location of final assembly:
Netherlands (Q55)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
RKDimages ID:
271219
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.252
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Amsterdam of the early 1600s was a religiously tolerant city, attracting many Jewish settlers of both Sephardic (Spanish and Portuguese) origin and Ashkenazic (Eastern European) descent. Rembrandt lived among both denominations and found inspiration in the manner and dress of the Ashkenazim, who maintained traditional comportment and attire and were less affluent than their Sephardim counterparts. As a result, many of the unidentified portraits from Rembrandt's late period once carried Jewish associations, but because of a lack of sufficient evidence, those assignations have since been reconsidered. Such is the case with
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