Between 1630 and 1632, Jan Lievens produced a variety of tronie etchings, and many of these images represent old men, such as his Portrait of an Old Man Facing Right. Throughout his formative years in Leiden, Lievens invested considerable time in depicting character heads and it is likely that the figure in this etching also served as a model for the artist’s Bust of and Old Man in Profile to the Right—a painting housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Free, spontaneous lines define the sitter’s head and hair, stylistic attributes that characterize most of Lievens’s etchings from the late 1620s and early 1630s. With etched tronies, Lievens typically left parts of the background of his printing plates unworked; however, here he filled in the void by designing a grid pattern using the technique of cross-hatching. Jan Lievens’s monogram is noticeable on the bottom right side of the print and it identifies this impression as the second state of two the artist made of this subject.