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Light shining on the old man’s face and illuminating the bare wall behind heightens the emotional and spiritual character of the scene. Careful brushstrokes describe the man’s wiry, overgrown beard, while thick impasto models his rugged facial features. This painting has variously been called a <em>Vanitas Allegory</em>—an elderly man contemplating a skull would certainly have evoked the inevitability of death—and <em>Saint Jerome</em>, although he has no specific attribute such as the lion or cardinal’s hat typically associated with that saint. The painting is related to the images of generic hermits produced in great numbers by Rembrandt’s Leiden pupil Gerrit Dou and his followers. 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