Title: Portrait of a Man
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1645–50
Artist:  Jacob Backer 
Artist bio: Dutch, Harlingen 1608–1651 Amsterdam
Artist nationality: Dutch
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, with touches of red chalk, on blue paper (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk (verso)
Dimensions: 9 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.  (23.7 x 21.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1947
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits