The head, shoulders, and chest of a pale-skinned man with gray hair and deep wrinkles creasing his face fill this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders angle slightly to our right, and he looks up and off in that direction. Light comes from our upper left, so the far side of his craggy face is in deep shadow. His brown eyes are deep-set sockets under a furrowed brow. He has a straight, prominent nose, and his thin lips are surrounded by wrinkles at the corners with more lines on his knob-like chin and between his nose and upper lip. Tendons and wrinkles stand out on his thick neck. Unruly locks of ash-gray hair stand up from his head over a pink-edged ear. His upper chest is bare within the gaping opening of his nickel-gray shirt, which is under a barn-red garment. The background is earth brown.

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   In this carefully rendered character study, also referred to as a tronie, Abraham Bloemaert masterfully captures the effects of aging. He sensitively articulates the taut muscles of the old man's attenuated neck, the wrinkles in his furrowed brow, and even the softening of his skin around his mouth and eyes—all the loss of youth's elasticity. Picturing the old man glancing upward, Bloemaert also emphasized the man's emotional state. With his head tilted to the side and gaze resting beyond the picture plane, he seems to possess an inner liveliness that imbues each crease and wrinkle with wisdom and experience.

   Despite the old man's apparent dynamism, Bloemaert may have based this painting on an ancient Roman bust rather than a live model. Although no exact source has been identified, the man's countenance resembles that of Seneca, a classical Roman philosopher who was a popular literary figure in the Netherlands. The pictorial source for the Gallery's painting may also have been an engraving Maarten van Heemskerck executed in the mid-17th century on the theme of old age.

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