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List of illustrations

  • Adam and Eve, detail
  • Adam and Eve, detail
  • Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael, detail
  • Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael, detail
  • Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael, detail
  • Abraham and Isaac, detail
  • Abraham and Isaac, detail
  • Abraham's Sacrifice, detail
  • Abraham's Sacrifice, detail
  • Jacob Caressing Benjamin, detail
  • Jacob Caressing Benjamin, detail
  • Jacob Caressing Benjamin, detail
  • Christ Returning from the Temple with His Parents, detail
  • Christ Returning from the Temple with His Parents, detail
  • Joseph Telling his Dreams, detail
  • Christ Preaching, La Petite Tombe, detail
  • Joseph Telling his Dreams, detail
  • Christ Disputing with the Doctors, detail
  • The Hundred Guilder Print, detail
  • Christ Presented to the People, "Ecce Homo," detail
  • The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight, detail
  • The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight, detail
  • Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves, The Three Crosses, detail
  • Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves, The Three Crosses
  • Sacrifice of Isaac
  • David with the Head of Goliath before Saul
  • Coriolanus and the Roman Women
  • Study head of a man in three-quarter profile looking down to the right
  • Descent from the Cross
  • Entombment of Christ
  • The Sermon of John the Baptist
  • The Concord of the Land
  • Ephriam Bomus
  • Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol
  • Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol, writing-master: the larger plate
  • Portrait of Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol, Cornelis Visscher, II
  • The Copper Plate Printer (De Plaatdrucker), detail
  • Saint Francis Praying beneath a Tree
  • Three women's heads, one lightly etched
  • Rembrandt's mother: only the head, full face
  • The Artist's Mother, head only, full face
  • Bald-headed old man: profile to the right (Rembrandt's father?)
  • Bald Man in Profile
  • The Windmill, detail
  • The Circumcision, detail
  • The Small Lion Hunt, with two lions, detail
  • The Presentation in the Temple, detail
  • The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobias, detail
  • Jan Cornelis Sylvius, detail
  • Self-portrait (?) With plumed beret, in oval frame
  • Plate 8 of Traicté des manières de graver en taille douce sur l'airin
  • The Presentation in the Temple with the Angel
  • The Presentation in the Temple
  • The Presentation in the Temple
  • Christ at Emmaus
  • Christ at Emmaus
  • Christ at Emmaus
  • The Circumcision
  • Rest on the flight into Egypt
  • The Flight into Egypt, a sketch
  • Peter and John at the Gate of the Temple
  • Circumcision
  • Samson and Delilah
  • Samson and Delilah
  • Self-Portrait with Tousled Hair
  • Self-Portrait, bare-headed, roughly etched
  • Self-Portrait, Age 23
  • Self-Portrait, Frowning
  • Self Portrait Open Mouthed, as if Shouting
  • Self-Portrait in a Cap, Wide-Eyed and Open-Mouthed
  • Self-portrait of Rembrandt, with mouth open, as a young man
  • Artist in His Studio
  • An Artist in His Studio
  • The Artist's Mother, Head and Bust: Three Quarters Right
  • Rembrandt's Mother Seated at a Table
  • Man Standing with a Stick
  • Standing beggar with high hat, leaning on a stick with both hands
  • The Blind Fiddler (De blind violist)
  • A Beggar Seated on a Bank, Self-Portrait
  • Beggar Seated Warming his Hands at a Chafing Dish
  • Study sheet with self-portrait, a beggar couple, and heads of an old man and woman
  • A Man on Crutches (Le Mendiant aux béquilles et à la besace)
  • Self-Portrait, with plumed cap and lowered sabre
  • Three studies of old men's heads
  • Old Man with a Gold Chain
  • Bust of an Old Man
  • Seated Old Man
  • Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap
  • Four Studies of Male Heads
  • Bust of an Old Man with a Flowing Beard
  • Daniel and Cyrus Before the Idol Bel
  • The Circumcision
  • The Presentation in the Temple
  • Christ Disputing with the Doctors
  • Christ disputing with the Doctors
  • The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
  • Carrying the Cross
  • Crucifixion
  • Descent from the Cross
  • Lamentation at the Foot of the Cross
  • The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
  • Christ Carried to the Tomb
  • The Entombment
  • The Descent from the Cross
  • The Incredulity of Thomas
  • Ecce Homo
  • Christ before Pilate
  • Bearded Old Man Seated in an Armchair
  • Joseph Telling his Dreams
  • Joseph Telling his Dreams
  • Two Women and a Turbaned Figure
  • Sleeping Watchdog
  • Sleeping Puppy
  • The Holy Family
  • The Holy Family with Angels
  • Self-Portrait with Saskia
  • Portrait of Saskia with a pearl necklace in her hair
  • Three Heads of Women
  • Girl with Hair Falling on Her Shoulders, The Great Jewish Bride
  • The Great Jewish Bride
  • The Little Jewish Bride, Saskia as St. Catherine
  • Portrait of Saskia as a Bride
  • Jacob Caressing Benjamin
  • Jacob Caressing Benjamin
  • Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael
  • Abraham and Isaac
  • Abraham's Sacrifice
  • The Visitation
  • The Death of the Virgin
  • Visitation, Life of the Virgin
  • Death of the Virgin, Life of the Virgin
  • Jan Cornelis Sylvius
  • Ephraim Bueno (Bonus), Jewish Physician
  • Portrait of Ephraim Bueno
  • Jan Six
  • Jan Cornelis Sylvius, Preacher
  • Study for Portait of Jan Six
  • The Pancake Woman
  • The Hog
  • The Star of the Kings
  • Old Man in a Fur Cap
  • The Star of the Kings
  • Star of the Kings
  • Self-Portrait
  • Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill
  • Self-Portrait in a Flat Cap and Embroidered Dress
  • Copper Plate: Self-Portrait in a Flat Cap and Embroidered Dress
  • Sketch Plate with a Tree, a Fragmentary Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap, and an Eye, Sheet of Studies
  • The Artist Drawing from a Model
  • A Man Drawing from a Cast
  • Jan Asselyn, Painter
  • Jan Lutma, Goldsmith
  • The Goldsmith
  • Jan Asselyn
  • Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave
  • Running couple and Death
  • The Flute Player
  • The Sleeping Herdsman
  • The Monk in the Cornfield
  • The Bedstead
  • Adam and Eve
  • Nude Woman with a Snake
  • Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
  • The Fall of Man, Adam and Eve
  • Jupiter and Antiope
  • Jupiter and Antiope
  • Sleeping Venus Surprised by Satyrs
  • Studies of a Woman and Two Children
  • Two Studies of a Child Pulling off the Cap of an Old Man
  • Three Studies of a Child and One of a Woman
  • Sick Woman with a Large White Headdress, Saskia
  • Sheet of Studies with a Woman Lying Ill in Bed
  • The Small Lion Hunt, with two lions
  • The Large Lion Hunt
  • The Baptism of the Eunuch
  • The Triumph of Mordecai
  • The Flight into Egypt
  • The Rest on the Flight, a night piece
  • The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt
  • The Flight into Egypt
  • Tobias and the Angel
  • The Flight into Egypt, altered from Hercules Seghers
  • The Flight into Egypt
  • The Flight into Egypt
  • Two Thatched Cottages with Figures at a Window
  • Cottages and Farm Buildings with a Man Sketching
  • Landscape with Cottage and Haybarn
  • The Windmill
  • Small Gray Landscape
  • The Three Trees
  • The Boat House
  • A Clump of Trees with a Drawbridge
  • A Clump of Trees in a Fenced Enclosure
  • The Omval
  • Winter Landscape
  • Six's Bridge
  • Landscape with a Farmstead, Winter Landscape
  • The Raising of Lazarus
  • The Raising of Lazarus
  • Tobias and the Angel Taking Leave of Raguel
  • The Blind Tobias
  • Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness
  • The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobias
  • The Preaching Christ, The Hundred Guilder Print
  • Christ Preaching, La Petite Tombe
  • Christ Preaching, La Petite Tombe
  • Medea, or the Marriage of Jason and Creusa
  • David and Goliath
  • Daniel's Vision of the Four Beasts
  • Jan Antonides van der Linden
  • The Rat Poison Seller
  • Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House
  • Abraham and the Angels
  • Abraham Entertaining the Angels
  • Drawing after an Indian Miniature
  • Abraham Entertaining the Angels, recto
  • River Landscape with Villages and Travelers, verso
  • The Shell
  • Saint Jerome in a Dark Chamber
  • Saint Jerome beside a Pollard Willow
  • Saint Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape
  • Saint Francis Praying beneath a Tree
  • Saint Jerome in His Study
  • Saint Jerome by the Pollard Willow
  • Faust, The Scholar in His Study
  • Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple
  • Christ Appearing to the Apostles
  • Christ Driving the Money Lenders from the Temple, Small Passion
  • The Adoration of the Shepards
  • The Presentation in the Temple in the Dark Manner
  • The Entombment
  • The Entombment
  • The Entombment
  • The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight
  • Christ at Emmaus: The Larger Plate
  • David in Prayer
  • The Adoration of the Shepherds: With the Lamp
  • The Circumcision in the Stable
  • The Flight into Egypt: Crossing a Brook
  • The Virgin and Child with the Cat and Snake
  • Christ Disputing with the Doctors
  • Christ Returning from the Temple with His Parents
  • The Agnony in the Garden
  • Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves, The Three Crosses
  • Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses
  • Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves, The Three Crosses
  • The Raising of the Cross
  • The Phoenix or The Statue Overthrown
  • The Ship of Fortune
  • Christ Presented to the People, The Ecce Homo
  • Christ Presented to the People: Oblong Plate
  • Joseph Sold into Slavery by His Brothers
  • Christ Healing Peter's Mother-in-Law
  • Abel Slain by Cain
  • Noah’s Ark
  • The Prophet Elisha and the Widow with Her Sons
  • Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple
  • Male Nudes Seated and Standing, The Walker
  • Male Nudes Seated and Standing, The Walker
  • Nude Youth Seated before a Curtain
  • The Bathers
  • Plate from 't Licht der teken en schilder konst, detail
  • Figures à la Mode
  • Panorama near Bloemendael Showing the Saxenburg Estate
  • Landscape with the House with the Little Tower
  • Landscape with a Farm Building and the House with the Tower
  • Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages beside a road
  • Houses on the Schinkelweg, Landscape with an Inn
  • Cottages and a Hay Barn on the Diemerdijk with a Flock of Sheep
  • A Farm on the Amsteldijk, Seen from the Northwest
  • Clump of Trees with a Vista
  • Kostverloren Castle in Decay
  • Landscape with a Cow Drinking
  • Landscape with a Hunter
  • Diana, Bathing
  • Woman Bathing Her Feet at a Brook
  • Woman Sitting Half-dressed before a Stove
  • Reclining Female Nude
  • Female Nude Seated on a Stool
  • The Woman with the Arrow, Venus and Cupid
  • Plate from 't Licht der teken en schilder konst, detail
  • Christ and the Woman of Samaria
  • Christ and the Woman of Samaria: An Arched Print
  • Flora
  • Clement de Jonghe
  • Clement de Jonghe, Printseller
  • Thomas Jacobsz Haringh, 1586/7–1660
  • Arnout Tholinx, Inspector
  • Abraham Francen
  • Lieven Willemsz. van Coppenol, Writing Master
  • The Artist's Son, Titus
  • Titus to the lectern
  • Self-Portrait, etching at a window
  • Rembrandt in Studio Garb
  • Self-Portrait
  • James the Apostle
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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
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PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
~The exhibition Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher takes us on a voyage through the varied terrain of the evolving work of a tirelessly inventive artist. Rembrandt is the greatest among a legion of seventeenth-century Dutch artists, but he is also—due to his humanity and the immediacy of his touch with...
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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
~Rembrandt’s Journey was originally conceived by Clifford Ackley as a major survey of Rembrandt’s varied production as an etcher. The Museum of Fine Arts had organized the exhibitions Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher in 1969 and Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt in 1980 but neither of these exhibitions had dealt with the full...
PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher surveys the unfolding of Rembrandt van Rijn’s art from his early years in Leiden to his later Amsterdam years, using as an organizing...
PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Related print edition pages: pp.11-16
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.001

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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
From his time to our time the painter and etcher Rembrandt van Rijn has been widely recognized for his skill in depicting emotion, particularly in paintings, drawings, and etchings that illustrate stories from the Old and New Testaments. About...
PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Related print edition pages: pp.17-28
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.002

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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
While Rembrandt may well be among the most beloved artists in history, and his paintings among the most studied, his oil sketches remain little known. One reason is that defining a Rembrandt oil sketch is an elusive exercise. For the purposes of this essay, we will consider them to be the roughly worked paintings, usually small in scale and often monochromatic, that appear to have been made...
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Related print edition pages: pp.29-44
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.003

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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
The opportunity to watch a famous artist at work is an exciting event, a privilege. Art lovers have been looking over the shoulders of great artists for centuries. Alexander the Great is said to have eagerly watched Apelles as he painted. Emperor Maximilian I watched Albrecht Dürer at work. One can imagine that close...
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Related print edition pages: pp.45-60
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.004

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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
~~The prints, drawings, and paintings are discussed in sixty-five thematic clusters. These clusters are arranged in an approximate chronological order. Works from different periods are, however, often grouped together in order to illuminate Rembrandt’s changing conceptions of subject, style,...
PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
Related print edition pages: pp.61-310
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.006

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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
All objects are by Rembrandt, except for no. 114 and the verso of no. 144. The identifying numbers for Rembrandt works in standard catalogues are abbreviated as follows: B. (Bartsch 1797) and H. (Hind 1923) for prints and copper plates; Ben. (Benesch 1973) for drawings; and Br. (Bredius 1937) and Corpus (Corpus 1982–89)...
PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.007
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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
Chronology
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.008
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Description: Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
Materials and Techniques
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00241.009
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Rembrandt’s Journey: Painter · Draftsman · Etcher
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