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Belshazzar’s Feast (c.1636-1638)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Belshazzar’s Feast c.1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 209.2 cm National Gallery, London Belshazzar’s Feast was painted somewhere between 1636 and 1638, when Rembrandt was about 30 years old. He had to make his way in Amsterdam, a…

A Bearded Man in a Cap (late 1650s)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Bearded Man in a Cap late 1650s Oil on canvas, 78 x 66.7 cm National Gallery, London This melancholy image of an old man lost in thought is one of a group of studies made by Rembrandt…

Anna and the Blind Tobit (c.1630)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Anna and the Blind Tobit c.1630 Oil on oak, 63.8 x 47.7 cm National Gallery, London Even as a young man, Rembrandt was interested in the depiction of old age and aged people. He painted them as if…

The Supper at Emmaus (1648)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Supper at Emmaus 1648 Oil on mahogany, 68 x 65 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Scene taken from the Gospel of Saint Luke (XXIV, 13-33), in which Christ, the day after his resurrection, reveals his divinity to…

Self-Portrait at an Easel (1660)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait at an Easel 1660 Oil on canvas, 111 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris One of Rembrandt‘s large self-portraits with those of Vienna (1652), the Frick Collection in New York (1658) and Kenwood (c.1665–1669), all late…

Saint Matthew and the Angel (1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saint Matthew and the Angel 1661 Oil on canvas, 96 x 81 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It is not certain, as Valentiner proposed, that the painting was part of a series of apostles or evangelists comparable to…

Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert 1633 Oil on canvas, 130 x 103 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Amsterdam merchant Abraham Anthonisz Recht was a convinced Remonstrant and great admirer of Wtenbogaert. He commissioned this portrait from Rembrandt in 1633 and…

Portrait of Ephraim Bueno (1645-1647)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a man, thought to be Dr. Ephraim Bueno 1645–1647 Oil on panel, 19 x 15 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Ephraim Bueno (1599–1665), a Jewish physician, poet and translator from Portugal, probably belonged to Rembrandt’s circle of friends.…