Old Man with a Gold Chain [SEP] creator
Old Man with a Gold Chain
Old Man with a Gold Chain is a portrait by Rembrandt, painted around 1631 and now in the Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1915, who wrote; "675. HARMEN GERRITSZ VAN RIJN. Half-length, without hands ; almost life size. He is inclined to the left, but his head and eyes are turned to the right. He wears a dark purple cloak, over which hangs a gold chain with a medallion.
On 18 July, a cab driver called Matthews came forward with suspicions about a German man known as Franz Müller. He told police that the 24-year-old tailor had come to his house with a gold chain in a box. After he had attached his fob watch to the chain, Matthews gave the box to his daughter. The box had been sold by a jeweller in Cheapside. The jeweller identified Müller from a photograph and told investigators that the German had visited his shop on 11 July to exchange a gold chain