- Artist/Maker:
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Bio:
- Dutch, 1606-1669
- Title:
- Portrait of Ephraim Bueno, Physician
- Date:
- 1647
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint on paper
- Dimensions:
- 8 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (21.6 × 18.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Leo Wallerstein
- Accession Number:
- JM 93-52
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Physician and poet Ephraim Hezekiah Bueno (1599-1665), also known as Bonus, descended from a prominent family of Marranos living in Amsterdam. Like his father, he had studied medicine in Bordeaux. A friend and collaborator of Manasseh ben Israel, Bueno copublished the first Hebrew book in Amsterdam in 1627 on Manasseh's press.
Prior to this etching portraying Bueno as a fashionably dressed, reflective man, Rembrandt made a preliminary bust-length portrait in oil.
Prior to this etching portraying Bueno as a fashionably dressed, reflective man, Rembrandt made a preliminary bust-length portrait in oil.
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