Thomas Haaringh (Old Haaringh) ca. 1655 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch Late in his career, Rembrandt printed a handful of poignant portraits of friends and close contacts. Thomas Haaringh was concierge of the Amsterdam Town Hall, in which role he organized the forced sale of Rembrandt’s possessions that followed artist’s bankruptcy, between 1656 and 1658. The work is a masterful study of subtle light effects, which distinguish the folds in the curtain and in the sitter’s ample cloak. The artist rendered the world outside only as a faint shadow visible through the window, which glows with
Thomas Haaringh (Old Haaringh) ca. 1655 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) Dutch Late in his career, Rembrandt printed a handful of poignant portraits of friends and close contacts. Thomas Haaringh was concierge of the Amsterdam Town Hall, in which role he organized the forced sale of Rembrandt’s possessions that followed artist’s bankruptcy, between 1656 and 1658. The work is a masterful study of subtle light effects, which distinguish the folds in the curtain and in the sitter’s ample cloak. The artist rendered the world outside only as a faint shadow visible through the window, which glows with late-day Thomas Haaringh (Old Haaringh) 369806
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