Shown from the waist up, a bearded man with pale, peachy skin, wearing a black wide-brimmed hat and jacket, and a broad, layered, white collar, holds up a piece of rolled up paper in this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders are angled to our right but he turns his face to look at us with dark gray eyes. He has a bumped nose, and his full pink lips are slightly parted. There are bags under his heavy-lidded eyes. A light brown mole marks his soft cheek, on our left, and there are jowls along his jawline. His honey-brown goatee is trimmed to a point, and his brown curly hair falls to his collar. The wide brim of the hat sweeps down a bit to our right. Layers of white fabric create a wide collar that rests against his chest and nearly reaches his shoulders. His dark coat is a field of black, broken only by the sheer white cuff and the hand he holds up in front of his chest. The skin of that hand, his left, has a greenish cast, and he wears a gold ring on the pinky finger. Musical notation is visible on the rolled-up paper he holds loosely in that hand. He is lit from our upper left so casts a shadow against the peanut-brown wall behind him. The artist signed and dated the painting near the man’s shoulder, to our right: “Rembrandt f 1633.”