# Abraham Francen [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Etching, drypoint and burin, second state of ten, 158 x 208 mm ## Commentary Abraham Francen c. 1657 Etching, drypoint and burin, second state of ten, 158 x 208 mm Teylers Museum, Haarlem <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> Bartsch 273. The sitter of this portrait, Abraham Francen \(b. 1613\) was an apothecary and art collector in Amsterdam. He and his brother Daniel were involved in financial transactions with Rembrandt in the mid-1650s. Francen is depicted in a modest interior, bare but for a table and several works of art. ## 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]()