Rembrandt (1606-1669) David and Jonathan 1642 Oil on panel, 73 x 61.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg After his wife’s death Rembrandt continued for a time to live in a grand style, assembling a collection of antiques in his Amsterdam home.…
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 1632 Oil on wood, 75.6 x 52.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted just after Rembrandt’s arrival in Amsterdam, this well-preserved portrait reveals the talent that enabled the young artist to quickly make…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Man in Oriental Costume (‘The Noble Slav’) 1632 Oil on canvas, 152.7 x 111.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Compared with Rembrandt‘s formal portraits of the same year, this picture is remarkable for its brilliant brushwork and…
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…
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) 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…