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Venus and Cupid (after 1660)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Venus and Cupid after 1660 Oil on canvas, 118 x 90 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Former title: Hendrickje Stoffels as Venus For vague reasons of resemblance, the painting passes, a pure supposition of Bredius (1910), to represent…

Titus at His Desk (1655)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Titus at His Desk 1655 Oil on canvas, 77 x 63 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam It is possible that this is a portrait of Rembrandt‘s son Titus around the age of fourteen. Slumped over his papers,…

Titus, the Artist’s Son (c.1657)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Titus, the Artist’s Son c.1657 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 57.3 cm Wallace Collection, London Titus van Rijn (1641-68) was the only one of Rembrandt’s four children by his first wife Saskia to survive infancy. A portrait of…

Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul (1661)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul 1661 Oil on canvas, 91 x 77 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt is 55 years old in this self-portrait, and he still looks at himself candidly. Here he assumes the guise of a…

Self-Portrait (c.1628)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait c.1628 Oil on panel, 22.6 x 18.7 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam As inexperienced as he is, the young Rembrandt does not shy away from experimenting. Here the light rakes his right cheek while the rest of his face…