Tag: Paris

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…

Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels (c.1654)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels c.1654 Oil on canvas, 74 x 61 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Since 1883 (Bode), the model has passed convincingly to be Hendrickje Stofetls, the painter’s partner after Saskia‘s death in 1642. Typical Neo-Vetanian…

The Supper at Emmaus (1648)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Supper at Emmaus 1648 Oil on mahogany, 68 x 65 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Scene taken from the Gospel of Saint Luke (XXIV, 13-33), in which Christ, the day after his resurrection, reveals his divinity to…

A Slaughtered Ox (1655)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Slaughtered Ox 1655 Oil on panel, 94 x 69 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painting of exceptional success in the work of the master, especially since other representations of this type, known under the name of Rembrandt,…

Self-portrait, bare head (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-portrait, bare head 1633 Oil on panel, 60 x 47 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The gorget, quite common in Rembrandt‘s self-portraits, worn by the artist under his clothing, contributes to his taste for disguises (here as a…

Self-Portrait (c.1634-1635)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) & workshop? Self-Portrait c.1634–1635 Oil on oak, 80 x 62 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Partially repainted painting and a complex execution process. Initially rectangular in format – the panel originally bore a student composition of the master inspired…

Self-Portrait at an Easel (1660)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait at an Easel 1660 Oil on canvas, 111 x 85 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris One of Rembrandt‘s large self-portraits with those of Vienna (1652), the Frick Collection in New York (1658) and Kenwood (c.1665–1669), all late…

Landscape with a Castle (c.1640-1642)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Landscape with a Castle c.1640–1642 Oil on panel, 44 x 60 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painting visibly left in a certain state of incompleteness (the sky by contrast was painted first and is colored and finished): Rembrandt…