Rembrandt’s 1639 etching “Wittenboogaert, The Gold Weigher” turns a counting-house interior into a drama of value and trust. Explore the composition, the gleaming scales, the kneeling petitioner, and how light, objects, and line portray justice in the Dutch Golden Age.
Rembrandt’s 1639 “The Resurrection of Christ” turns the tomb into a theater of light: an angel descends like a blade of radiance, guards collapse, and the risen Jesus appears with calm authority. Explore composition, chiaroscuro, gesture, and the painting’s powerful theology of illumination.
Explore Rembrandt’s 1639 etching “The Skater,” a lively single-figure study that turns a Dutch winter pastime into an essay on motion, balance, and character. Discover composition, line work, and the human warmth behind this spare, timeless sheet.
Rembrandt’s 1639 “The Entombment” is a nocturne of hands, linen, and light—friends lowering Christ’s body inside a cave illuminated by ember-like glow. Explore the composition, chiaroscuro, gesture, and quiet theology that turn a burial into a meditation on grief and hope.
Rembrandt’s 1639 studio scene reveals the act of making: a nude model on a platform, a focused draughtsman, and bold contrasts of black tone and open paper. Explore composition, technique, light, and why the print’s unfinished passages feel strikingly modern.
Discover Rembrandt’s 1639 etching “Self-portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill,” where a projecting ledge, luxurious drapery, and masterful linework create an intimate, Renaissance-inspired persona. Explore composition, light, technique, and the portrait’s role in the artist’s self-fashioning.
Explore Rembrandt’s 1639 “Self-portrait with Bittern,” a striking fusion of self-portrait and still life where a glowing game bird eclipses the artist’s face. Learn how light, texture, gesture, and symbolism transform a hunting trophy into a meditation on making and mortality.
Discover Rembrandt’s 1639 “Portrait of Alijdt Adriaensdr,” where a luminous millstone ruff, restrained palette, and precise chiaroscuro frame a profoundly human likeness. Explore composition, light, gesture, and cultural context in this quietly powerful Dutch Golden Age portrait.
Explore Rembrandt’s 1639 “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother,” an intimate oval that blends warm chiaroscuro, tactile paint, and profound empathy. Learn how light, costume, hands, and color create a humane meditation on age and presence.
An in-depth look at Rembrandt’s 1639 “Maria Trip” study in pen, brown wash, and white heightening—how light, architecture, gesture, and rapid mark-making shaped the grand oil portrait and reveal the artist’s decisions in real time.
Explore Rembrandt’s 1639 portrait “Maria Trip,” a richly textured study of a Dutch patrician framed by an architectural niche. Learn how light, lace, pearls, and velvet serve a poised, humane likeness that exemplifies Rembrandt’s mature portrait style.
Explore Rembrandt’s 1639 “Full Length Portrait of a Standing Man,” a life-size portrait that unites architecture, luminous blacks, and poised gesture. Learn how light, costume, and setting create a humane vision of status in the Dutch Golden Age.
Discover Rembrandt’s 1639 “A Jew with the High Cap,” a small yet powerful etching of an elderly man in profile. Explore its Amsterdam context, expressive gesture, refined line work, and humane portrayal that turns everyday presence into lasting art.
Explore Rembrandt’s 1639 “Death of the Virgin,” a monumental etching that stages Mary’s final moments as a communal, light-filled drama. Discover the composition, symbolism, line work, and chiaroscuro that make this print one of the artist’s most moving meditations on passage and grace.
In this 1639 etching, a skeleton rises politely from a grave to present an hourglass to a fashionable couple. Rembrandt turns a vanitas theme into a human dialogue, using elegant gestures, compressed space, and precise line to stage a persuasive encounter between love, style, and time.
Rembrandt’s etching shows his wife Saskia inhabiting the role of St. Catherine with calm intelligence. Flowing hair, voluminous robes, and a luminous, minimally worked face create a contemplative saint free of heavy attributes, revealing how the artist fused devotion with an intimate, modern portrait.
Rembrandt’s 1638 ink-and-wash drawing thrusts the sitter to the paper’s edge, using bold contour, smoky shadows, and incisive highlights to forge a personality that feels immediate and modern. Folded arms, a canopying hat, and penetrating eyes turn this sheet into a vivid encounter rather than a polite likeness.
Rembrandt’s 1638 etching stages Genesis as a human conversation beneath a cavernous tree. With supple chiaroscuro, psychologically precise gestures, and a theatrically persuasive serpent, the artist captures the charged instant before the bite, turning myth into an intimate drama of attention, delay, and desire.