# Russian courtiers [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Brown ink and wash, 144 x 201 mm ## Commentary Russian courtiers c. 1637 Brown ink and wash, 144 x 201 mm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York <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 145. The inscription on the drawing reads: those in disgrace are not shaved. The figures in the foreground have short hair and those in the background long, unkempt hair. This corresponded to the contemporary usage current at the court of Moscow that those noblemen who were in disgrace with the tsar had to grow their hair long to distinguish them clearly from the other Russian nobles, who always shaved their heads. ## 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]()