# A Young Man with a Chain, in The 17th century

Rembrandt van Rijn painted this in about 1629 or 1632, aged about 19. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This painting is an example of a tronie , a Dutch word meaning “head” or “facial expression.” Tronies were not intended to be identifiable portraits, but artistic investigations of facial appearance and fanciful costume.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1629 or 1632
- Medium: oil on wood
- Dimensions: Framed: 83.8 x 69.9 x 12.7 cm (33 x 27 1/2 x 5 in.); Unframed: 57.8 x 43.8 cm (22 3/4 x 17 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.644
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Rembrandt van Rijn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/rembrandt-van-rijn), Dutch, 1606–1669

Rembrandt trained in Leiden and Amsterdam, settled in Amsterdam in the early 1630s and became the city’s most sought-after portraitist.

14 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Rembrandt van Rijn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/rembrandt-van-rijn?hang=750) (14 works)
- [More Dutch Golden Age](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-golden-age?hang=750) (44 works)
- [17th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-netherlands?hang=750) (91 works)

## Get it

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