Hang Around the World: Painting #044

Rembrandt van Rijn

(Dutch Golden Age Baroque, 1606–1669)

Rembrandt (and his productive workshop) produced a total of about 300 paintings, 300 etchings and 2000 drawings.

List of paintings by Rembrandt

The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

well-known as The Night Watch

- Rembrandt

- oil on canvas (363 × 437 cm) 1642

- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

Rembrandt painted in a girl (his wife Saskia) to emphasize it was a militia.

What Makes ‘The Night Watch’ Rembrandt’s Masterpiece -

Rembrandt Statue and The Night Watch figures

- Rembrandt Square (Amsterdam)

The Militia Company sued Rembrandt in court, because everyone was put into positions of various importance and brightness; they (being Dutch) paid the same amount of money, expecting equal treatment like the following:

Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse

- Frans Hals the Elder (Dutch, c.1582–1666)

- oil on canvas (173 × 256 cm) 1664

- Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem, Netherlands)

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (170 × 217 cm) in 1632
- Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis (The Hague)

An Old Woman Reading, Probably the Prophetess Hannah
- Rembrandt
- oil on oak wood (60 x 48 cm) 1631
- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

His mother was the model, reading an Old Testament. That was what she did daily to child Rembrandt.

Flora (aka Saskia as Flora)

- Rembrandt

- oil on canvass (125 x 101 cm) 1634
- Hermitage (St. Petersburg)

Showing his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612–1642) as the goddess Flora. She gave birth to 3 children who died shortly after birth, and then son Titus.

The Prodigal Son in the Brothel
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (161 × 131 cm) c.1635
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)

It portrays two people who had been identified as Rembrandt himself and his wife Saskia. In the same year, Saskia died of tuberculosis.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

- Rembrandt

- oil on canvas (262 × 205 cm) 1661-69
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels
second wife of Rembrandt
- Rembrandt
- c. 1654
- Louvre (Paris)

Bathsheba at Her Bath
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (142 x 142 cm) 1654
- The Louvre (Paris)

A Woman Bathing in a Stream

- Rembrandt
- oil on panel (62 × 47 cm) 1654
- National Gallery (London)

The Stone Bridge
(aka Landscape with a Stone Bridge)
- Rembrandt
- oil on panel (30 × 43 cm) 1637
- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

Belshazzar's Feast
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (168 × 209 cm) 1635-38
- National Gallery (London)

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle
(Ancient Greek mythology)
- Rembrandt
- oil on panel (177 x 130 cm) in 1635
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Dresden)

An eagle, Zeus/宙斯 in disguise, abducted handsome shepherd Ganymede, and caused him urinary incontinence/瀨尿.

Danaë
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (185 × 203 cm) c.1636&1643
- Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg)

Although the artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë, Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his mistress Geertje Dircx.

Portrait of Maria Trip

- Rembrandt
- oil on panel (107 × 82 cm) c.1639
- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

Descent from the Cross - The Deposition
- Rembrandt
- oil on cedar wood (89 x 65 cm) 1632-33
- Alte Pinakothek (Munich)

The Descent from the Cross
- Workshop of Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (158 x 117 cm) 1634
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

Pilgrims at Emmaus
or The Supper at Emmaus
- Rembrandt
- oil on mahogany (68 x 65 cm) 1648
- Louvre (Paris)

The Holy Family with Angels
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (117 × 91 cm) 1645
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

Rembrandt used his 4th child, Titus, as model

Titus van Rijn, the Artist's Son, Reading
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (72 x: 65 cm) c.1656-57
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienba)

The Sampling Officials
- Rembrandt
-oil on canvas (192 × 279 cm) 1662
-Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

The Jewish Bride

- Rembrandt

- oil on canvas (122 × 167 cm) c.1665-69
- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

Samson was betrayed by his lover Delilah, who ordered a servant to cut his hair while he was sleeping and turned him over to his Philistine enemies, who gouged out his eyes.

The Blinding of Samson
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (236 x 302 cm) 1636
- Städel Museum (Frankfurt)

Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife
- Rembrandt Workshop
- oil on canvas (106 x 98 cm) 1655
- National Gallery of Art (Washington)

Potiphar's wife, who was known for her infidelities, took a liking to Joseph (a slave), and attempted to seduce him. When Joseph refused her advances, and ran off, she retaliated by falsely accusing him of trying to rape her, and Potiphar had Joseph imprisoned.....
What happened to Potiphar after that is unclear.

List of etchings by Rembrandt

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
- Rembrandt
- etching (9.1 × 11.4 cm) 1634

Abraham and Isaac
- Rembrandt
- etching print (16 x 13 cm) 1645
- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

The Three Crosses
- Rembrandt
- etching and drypoint (39 × 46 cm) 1653
- Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

Self-Portraits

Self Portrait at the Age of 34

- Rembrandt

- oil on canvas (102 x 80 cm) 1640

- National Gallery (London)

Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar

- Rembrandt

- oil on canvas (84 × 66 cm) 1659

- National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)

Rembrandt had a messy life. He had an affair with a maid, who now pressed for marriage. When turned down, she brought a rape case to court, which sent her to a mental asylum. The witness was another maid, his new love. They got married, giving birth to a daughter.

Self-Portrait
- Rembrandt
- oil on canvas (134 x 104 cm) 1658
- The Frick Collection (NYC)