Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House

Rembrandt van Rijn

National Gallery of Art

The print shows five people standing around an opening in a wall on the left. A man on the far left stands in a dark doorway, extending his left hand out. He has light skin and a long, white beard, and he wears a tall hat and a robe-like garment with a high collar. His right hand reaches into his robe. In front of him stands a group including another bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and cloak, a woman wearing a headscarf and a full-length dress holding a basket and walking stick with a bundled child hanging from her back, and a short person with their back to us, perhaps another child, wearing a torn top hat and tunic. The woman reaches out towards the man in the doorway, and he appears to hand her something small. The background of the print is beige paper.