Description
In The Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player and Family Receiving Alms, a print after Rembrandt, a family gathers by a doorway at the left, facing the musician and his bulky instrument at the right. A child occupies the foreground among the neighboring figures. The subject of receiving alms gives their meeting a practical purpose, allowing music, family company and assistance to become part of one close human encounter.
Dated 1648, the source combines etching and drypoint and is attributed after Rembrandt rather than securely to his own hand. The scene’s interest lies in the meeting between people brought together through need and response. An act of assistance acquires significance through the figures involved, allowing the printed image to retain a close human scale within a wider social world.
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