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Beggar Leaning on a Stick, Facing Left, c. 1630. Etching on ivory laid paper.
Etching on ivory laid paper · Plate: 8.5 × 4.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Beggar Leaning on a Stick, Facing Left
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- c. 1630
- Medium
- Etching on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8.5 × 4.7 cm (3 3/8 × 1 7/8 in.); Sheet: 8.8 × 5 cm (3 1/2 × 2 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1606–1669
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.