# Study of an Old Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LIEVENS, Jan]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 58 x 47 cm ## Commentary The painting is a study of the head and shoulders of an old bearded man, wearing a cap. Until the beginning of the 20th century this painting was attributed to Rembrandt. It dates from c. 1629, when both Rembrandt and Lievens, together in Leiden, painted numerous such studies of old men and women. Both Rembrandt and Lievens, and sometimes other artists in their close Leiden circle, often used the same model for different studies. Lievens made another study of the same bearded old portrayed here, seen from the same angle, but hatless, in Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig. ## Related artworks - [A Tronie]() - [Bearded Old Man with a Brown Cloak]() - [Bust of a Young Girl]() - [Head of an Old Man]() - [Jacob Receiving the Bloody Tunic of Joseph]() - [Old Man in Oriental Garb]() - [Pilate Washing his Hands]() - [Portrait of an Old Man]() - [Portrait of Ephraim Bueno]() - [Portrait of Petrus Egidius de Morrion]() - [Portrait of Poet Jan Vos]() - [Prince Charles Louis with His Tutor, as Alexander Instructed by Aristotle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()