Rembrandt (1606-1669) Descent from the Cross 1634 Oil on canvas, 158 x 117 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Like other paintings by Rembrandt on Christian subjects, The Descent from the Cross was not intended for a church, as in Protestant Holland…
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) Danae 1636 Oil on canvas, 185 x 202.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Love undoubtedly also inspired Rembrandt to produce Danaë. The subject was taken from the ancient myth about a princess of Argos, whose father, the king, was…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Woman, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family 1632 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This portrait is a pendant to the Portrait of a Man (29.100.3). If…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family 1632 Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The man is most likely Cornelis van Beresteyn (1586–1638), a wealthy burgomaster of…
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) The Toilet of Bathsheba 1643 Oil on wood, 57.2 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rembrandt shows the biblical figure Bathsheba completely nude, lost in a moment of contemplation and unaware that she is being observed…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Woman with a Pink early 1660s Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 74.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Her forehead crisscrossed with jewels, the sitter of this portrait displays a pink, or carnation, a symbol of love and…
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).…