# An Oriental standing, full-length [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pen and brown ink heightened with white on paper prepared with brown wash, 222 x 173 mm ## Commentary An Oriental standing, full-length c. 1639 Pen and brown ink heightened with white on paper prepared with brown wash, 222 x 173 mm British Museum, London <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note03.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue number:</a> Benesch 207. Rembrandt occasionally enhanced the modeling of mass and volume by applying opaque white watercolour to create highlights on his drawings. However, he more often used to opaque white medium to correct or edit out lines that he wished to soften or suppress. The medium, based on a solution of lead white, often becomes more transparent with age, revealing the covered ink lines. In the present drawing, the feather in the man's cap was intended to be deleted, but has now reappeared. ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()