Tag: Rembrandt

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…

Aristotle and Bust of Homer (1653)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Aristotle and Bust of Homer 1653 Oil on canvas, 143.5 x 136.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Among The Met’s most celebrated works of art, this painting conveys Rembrandt’s meditation on the meaning of fame. The richly…

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…

Flora (c.1654)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Flora c.1654 Oil on canvas, 100 x 91.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Unlike many of his ambitious contemporaries, Rembrandt never traveled to Italy. Nonetheless, Italian art had a profound effect on him; in this depiction of…

Johannes Elison

Johannes Elison in Art: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Reverend Johannes Elison 1634 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   Wife Maria Bockenolle

Maria Bockenolle

Maria Bockenolle in Art: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Maria Bockenolle 1634 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston     Husband Johannes Elison

Philips Lucasz

(?-1641) Philips Lucasz in Art: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of Philips Lucasz 1635 National Gallery, London    

Margaretha de Geer

(1583–1672) Margaretha de Geer in Art: Rembrandt (1606-1669) Margaretha de Geer 1661 National Gallery, London     Rembrandt (1606-1669) Margaretha de Geer c.1661 National Gallery, London   Husband Jacob Trip (c.1576-1661)