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Rembrandt van Rijn: Self-Portrait, 1659
Source: Artcyclopedia; photograph by Michael Weinberg
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Rembrandt van Rijn
[Dutch Baroque Era Painter and Engraver, 1606-1669]
| • Also known as: | Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn | | • Relationships: | Studied under history painter Pieter Lastman.
Rembrandt's many students included Gerrit Dou, Nicolaes Maes, Jacob Backer, Ferdinand Bol, Willem Drost, Barent Fabritius, Carel Fabritius, Govert Flinck, Aert de Gelder, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Philips Koninck, Jurgen Ovens, Jan Victors and Jacob de Wet. | | • Subject matter: | Specializes in Portraits/History Painting. |
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[Rembrandt's prints] brought him fame and no small advantage, in particular through the device of slight changes and small and unimportant additions, which he made on his prints, thanks to which they could be sold again as fresh ones. Nay, the demand was at that time so great that people were not considered true amateurs who did not possess the Juno with and without the crown, the Joseph with the light and the dark head and so on.
Indeed, everyone wanted to have the Woman by the Stove - as it happened, one of his least important etchings - both with and without the stove-key, in spite of the fact that he sold the etching through his son Titus, as if it were too unimportant for himself.
| | - A. Houbraken describing how Rembrandt pioneered a marketing gimmick which still works today, quoted in the Faber Book of Art Anecdotes. |
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Mini-site for the 2004 exhibition Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
3 works online
Rembrandt van Rijn at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Rembrandt van Rijn
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
24 works by Rembrandt
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Landscape with a Horseman, pen and ink, 1656
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
16 works online by Rembrandt
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Cupid with the Soap Bubble, 1634 (Zoom)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Old Woman Praying (known as "Rembrandt's Mother Praying"), ca.1629/30 (Zoom)
Rembrandt van Rijn at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels with a Velvet Beret, ca.1654
Rembrandt van Rijn at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Jacob's Dream, pen and ink drawing, 1635-45
Rembrandt van Rijn at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Bathsheba at Her Bath, 1654
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW!
Page forward for numerous works on paper by Rembrandt
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rembrandt van Rijn at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse, ca.1665
Head of Christ
Woman with a Pink, 1660s
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
Rembrandt van Rijn at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
76 works by Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Titus, recently on loan from the Norton Simon Museum
Rembrandt van Rijn at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Abraham Entertaining the Angels
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
7 works
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Portrait of a Young Man, 1666 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum, Madrid
Artemis, 1634
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Many works; move your mouse over the thumbnails at the top to scroll through them all
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
28 works by Rembrandt van Rijn online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Christ presented to the people (Ecce Homo)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The drunken Lot
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Blinding of Samson
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College
Great reproductions of 63 Rembrandt etchings
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Christ with the Sick around Him Receiving Little Children
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1632
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages beside a Road, etching
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Hundred Guilder Print (Christ Preaching), etching
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Saint Francis Beneath a Tree Praying, etching
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch) NEW!
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
9 prints online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
Portrait of a Lady with a Lap Dog
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish)
Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French)
Online exhibition: "Rembrandt. La lumière de l'ombre"
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain NEW!
Portrait of Cornelis Claesz Anslo
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Self-Portrait Wearing a Soft Cap (The Three Moustaches), ca.1634
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Christ Preaching (La Petite Tombe), ca.1652
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
13 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Carlos Museum at Emory University, Georgia
Virgin and Child in the Clouds
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Many works online
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
(You may need to click "I accept these terms")
Jacob Haaringh (The Young Haaringh)
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds, 1634
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
The Three Trees, etching, 1643
Dresden State Art Collections
The Three Crosses, 1653
Dresden State Art Collections
Rembrandt and Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son in the Tavern
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
3 paintings by Rembrandt, mixed in with several by followers and copiers
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh, 1636
Still Life with Bittern and a Girl, ca.1639
Falmouth Art Gallery, England NEW!
The Baptism of the Eunuch
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
26 works online
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
A Man in Oriental Costume
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Frick Collection, New York City
18 works online
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Move the date slider back to about 1630 to see a painting by Rembrandt
Glasgow Museums, Scotland
A Man in Armour
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Saskia sitting up in bed, 1635
Actor in the character of Pantalone
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Hammer Museum, California NEW!
Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages beside a Road, 1650
Hammer Museum, California NEW!
Juno, ca.1662-65
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Information about the 2006 exhibition, "Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique"
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Portrait of Christ, ca.1655-57
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Woman Sitting Half-Dressed beside a Stove
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)
Portrait of a Man in a Broad-Brimmed Hat, 1635
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Portrait of a Young Jew
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"
Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austria (in German)
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
The Flight into Egypt
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French) NEW!
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, 1657
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
15 works online
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont NEW!
3 prints by Rembrandt online
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
4 works online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Lucretia, 1666, plus 11 etchings and drawings
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
L'Annonciation, drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
La Lapidation de saint Etienne
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Rembrandt au bonnet orné d'une plume, 1638
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
2 engravings online
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
L'Annonciation, ca.1635
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian) NEW!
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of an Old Man
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Lying lion, drawing, ca.1650-52
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
8 drawings
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Bust of Christ, disputedly by Rembrandt
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
National Museum of Art of Romania NEW!
Haman Begging the Mercy of Esther
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Self-portrait as a young man, ca.1630
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Self-portrait
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2 works online
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Beggar Woman With Gourd
The Agony In The Garden
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
Christ among the Doctors, ca.1642
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
The Flight into Egypt: A Night Piece, 1651
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
5 works by Rembrandt van Rijn online
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
A total of 9 works by Rembrandt, on this and subsequent pages
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Artaxerxes, Haman, and Esther
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Old Woman praying
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art NEW!
Descent from the Cross by Torchlight (see bottom row)
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW!
The Blind Tobias
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Portrait of Nicolaas van Bambeeck
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Man Standing with a Voluminous Coat and Broad Hat, drawing
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
4 works online
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 works online
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
Portrait of a Woman, 1634
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Die Anbetung der Hirten, etching, ca.1654
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
St. Paul in Prison
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
The Departure of Rebecca from her Parent's Home
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print)
Städtischen Museen Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany (in German) NEW!
Greis mit langem Bart (Old man with a Long Beard), etching, 1630
State Museums of Berlin
2 paintings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large self-portrait
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Virginia
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The British Museum, London, UK
24 works by or related to Rembrandt
The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Rembrandt the printmaker
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
The Angel at the Empty Tomb
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Probable Portrait of Pieter Six
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
St. Peter in Prison, 1631
The Jewish Museum, New York City
The Triumph of Mordecai, etching, ca.1640
Ephraim Bonus, Jewish Physician, etching, 1647
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands NEW!
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
4 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
- you can zoom in via the mouse scroll wheel, then click the image and drag it around
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Saint Bartholomew
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City NEW!
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Selbstbildnis, painted after 1665
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Christus und die Ehebrecherin, drawing
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK NEW!
Search results for "Rembrandt"
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
The Quacksalver, 1635
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Danish Museums Online (in Danish)
(You can switch to English by going to the very top of the site, but the viewable works are much fewer)
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Page forward several times for works by Rembrandt
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Rembrandt van Rijn 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Apollo Magazine
An article on Rembrandt attributions and also an interview with the director of the Rembrandt Research Project
Artnet Magazine
Portrait of Man in Red Doublet, 1633
Artnet Magazine
A seated Young Man with Long Hair, his Hands Folded, drawing
ARTnews
"Rembrandt: Myth, Legend, Truth"
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 49): Rembrandt by Himself
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"The Human Condition in Rembrandt's Eyes," article by Souren Melikian
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"The Unsolved Riddle of Rembrandt's Women," article by Souren Melikian
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Hendrickje Stoffels, ca.1654-56
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Hendrickje Stoffels, ca.1654-60
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Self-portrait, ca.1663
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Rembrandt's Venice Muses Convene on East Side
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Intimate Rembrandt Awaits in Boston
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Rembrandt Is Still a Genius, Despite Professor's Rantings
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Rembrandt Painted Himself With Total Lack of Vanity
Time Magazine
"Really Rembrandt?", 1992 article by Robert Hughes
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