Rembrandt (1606-1669) Return of the Prodigal Son c.1668 Oil on canvas, 262 x 205 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg At one moment in his youth Rembrandt depicted himself in one of his many self-portraits as a reveller and spoilt child of…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Woman 1654 Oil on canvas, 109 x 84 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of an Old Jew 1654 Oil on canvas, 109 x 85 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of the Poet Jeremias de Decker 1666 Oil on panel, 71 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Decker, Jeremias de (1609-1666)
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) The Standard Bearer, Floris Soop 1654 Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The flag, the plume in the hat, and the tooled leather baldric (sword-belt) indicate that the figure is an ensign…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man c.1650–1660 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 64.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait is generally considered to be by Rembrandt, and is somewhat less uniformly thought to date from the 1650s. Both…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves 1648 Oil on wood, 80.6 x 67.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In style and execution this portrait of a dignified older gentleman is consistent with Rembrandt‘s work of about 1645–50.…
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,…
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…