Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Polish Nobleman 1637 Oil on panel. 96.8 x 66 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Lucretia 1664 Oil on canvas, 120 x 101 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Circumcision 1661 Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 75 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633),…
Rembrandt and Workshop? (1606-1669) The Apostle Paul c.1657 Oil on canvas, 131.5 x 104.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Jew 1654 Oil on canvas, 109 x 85 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1660 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt was a dedicated self-portraitist all his life, and roughly forty self-portraits by him survive today. In this example, painted when Rembrandt was fifty-four,…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Baertje Martens c.1640 Oil on oak panel, 76 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Companion: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Martens, Baertje (1596-1678)
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Herman Doomer 1640 Oil on wood, 75.2 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Herman Doomer was a successful cabinetmaker who worked with the imported ebony fashionable in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The exceptional care Rembrandt took with this…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Joueurs de cartes (The Card Players) 1890–1892 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cézanne was in his fifties when he undertook a painting campaign devoted to giving memorable form to a…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait d’Antonin Proust (Portrait of Antonin Proust) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Proust, Antonin (1832-1905)