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Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan 1633 Oil on canvas, 125.7 x 101 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This animated portrait has a pendant showing the sitter’s husband rising from a chair (Taft Museum, Cincinnati).…

Man with a Magnifying Glass (early 1660s)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Man with a Magnifying Glass early 1660s Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 74.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait most likely depicts the Amsterdam auctioneer Pieter Haringh (1609–1685), who once handled the sale of a famous…

Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (1668)

Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (Venus schenkt wapens aan Aeneas) 1668 Oil on canvas, 161.8 x 165.8 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp In the 17th century, classicism broke through, also in golden Holland. Artists…

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse (1665-1667)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse 1665–1667 Oil on canvas, 112.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gerard de Lairesse (1641–1711) was, in his day, a well-known painter, etcher, and art theorist. He suffered from congenital syphilis,…

Hendrickje Stoffels (mid–1650s)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Hendrickje Stoffels mid-1650s Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 68.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hendrickje Stoffels, the daughter of a soldier, worked as Rembrandt’s housekeeper, eventually becoming his common-law wife and mother of his daughter, Cornelia. While…

Bellona (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bellona 1633 Oil on canvas, 127 x 97.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Typical of Rembrandt’s domestication of ancient myth, this depiction of the Roman goddess of war may have reflected the Dutch readiness for conflict during…

Judith at the banquet of Holofernes (1634)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Judith at the banquet of Holofernes 1634 Oil on canvas, 143 x 154.7 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In the past various authors have expressed their scepticism about the attribution of the painting to Rembrandt. However, the Rembrandt Research…

Strawberry Tea Set (1912)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Strawberry Tea Set 1912 Oil on canvas, 93.19 x 96.36 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA Around 1910 Hassam began depicting single female figures set in comfortable domestic interiors. The critic Royal Cortissoz referred to these paintings…