Jan Lutma 1656

print, etching, drypoint

pencil drawn

photo restoration

print

etching

pencil sketch

sculpture

charcoal drawing

charcoal art

unrealistic statue

pencil drawing

19th century

drypoint

charcoal

This etching, titled "Jan Lutma" was created in 1656 by the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. The work depicts Jan Lutma, a goldsmith and silversmith, seated in a chair with his hand resting on a table, the surface of which is scattered with tools of his trade. The detailed rendering of Lutma's face and the subtle use of light and shadow exemplify Rembrandt's mastery of etching, making this print a powerful example of the artist's ability to capture the essence of his subject. This work is currently housed at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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minneapolisinstituteofart about 1 year ago

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Jan Lutma, Goldsmith, pays homage to one of the grand old men of Dutch art at the time. Lutma, then in his seventies, was a master of the auricular forms fashionable earlier in the century. He holds a statuette, and on the table beside him are a hammer and a cup full of punches—the tools of his trade—as well as a dish featuring sensuous curvilinear contours for which he was famous. Though Rembrandt portrays Lutma as physically past his prime, he also gives him the penetrating gaze of a sharp mind still at work. The exceptionally neat inscription identifying the sitter may have been applied to the plate by Lutma’s son, who was both a goldsmith and a printmaker.