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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. |
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Original works by Rembrandt van Rijn available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
Many works by Rembrandt van Rijn online
Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish) 
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds, 1634
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
16 works online by Rembrandt
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Large Self-Portrait, 1652
Titus van Rijn, the Artist's Son, Reading, ca.1656-57
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
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
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
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Lucretia, 1666, plus 11 etchings and drawings
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
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Portrait of a Young Man, 1666 (Zoom)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Many works; move your mouse over the thumbnails at the top to scroll through them all
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
28 works by Rembrandt van Rijn online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK NEW!
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")
8 paintings online
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
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
Juno, ca.1662-65
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
A Woman Wahing Her Feet at a Brook, etching, 1658
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia NEW!
9 prints online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Kneeling man, 1640s
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
6 prints online
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Rembrandt Drawing at a Window, 1648
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
15 works online
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
The Adoration of the Shepherds: A Night Piece, ca.1656-57
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Christ Presented to the People
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
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!
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Jacob Haaringh (The Young Haaringh)
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Portrait of a Man
Portrait of a Lady
Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook
The Presentation in the Temple
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire NEW!
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
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh, 1636
Still Life with Bittern and a Girl, ca.1639
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Frick Collection, New York City
18 works online
Glasgow Museums, Scotland NEW!
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
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
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
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
Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austria (in German)
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
The Flight into Egypt
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
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW!
4 works online
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
L'Annonciation, drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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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)
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of an Old Man
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NEW!
Lying lion, drawing, ca.1650-52
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
8 drawings
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Bust of Christ, disputedly by Rembrandt
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
La Lapidation de saint Etienne
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
National Museum of Art of Romania
Haman Begging the Pardon 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
Hendrickje Stoffels seated at a Window, eyes shut
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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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
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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
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Portland Art Museum, Oregon
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Prado Museum, Madrid (new website, can be quite slow)
Artemis, 1634
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Saint Francis Praying Beneath a Tree, 1657
Prints in the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas
Self-Portrait with Various Studies, etching, ca.1632
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Artaxerxes, Haman, and Esther
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Old Woman praying
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) NEW!
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
State Graphic Art Collection, Nuremberg, Germany
Self portrait, ca.1629
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
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 British Museum, London, UK NEW!
24 works by or related to Rembrandt
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
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 Wallace Collection, London, UK
4 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Self Portrait, ca.1643
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Saint Bartholomew
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish)
Virtual Uffizi
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Selbstbildnis, painted after 1665
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Christus und die Ehebrecherin, drawing
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
The Three Crosses
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
gallery of 146 paintings
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Self Portrait at an Early Age
Artonline
CGFA
Insecula
Rasiel's Wallpapers
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Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Archker's Fantasy Art Gallery
Artpx NEW!
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Jetset Image Galleries
Olga's Gallery
University of Leipzig, Germany
Many paintings and drawings by Rembrandt scattered throughout these pages
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Art Museum Image Consortium
Lucretia
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Rembrandt: 400 Years (8 works online)
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
3 drawings online
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits (17 works online)
Christie's
Portrait of a Lady, Aged 62
Collection of the Banca Popolare di Sondrio, Italy (partly in Italian)
The deposition from the cross, 1633
FBI Art Theft Program
Self-portrait, 1630, stolen in Sweden and subsequently recovered
FBI Art Theft Program
Details of 3 works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
FBI Art Theft Program
Saint Bartholomew
FBI Art Theft Program
The Apostle James Major
Interpol Stolen Works of Art
Portrait of Rembrandt's Father, stolen by armed robbers from a museum in Serbia and Montenegro
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail NEW!
2 works online when last checked
Online Archive of California
About 6 engravings by Rembrandt; scroll down to the "Dutch and Flemish" section
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
The National Ossolinski Institute
Images from the exhibition Rembrandt and the Masters of 15-17th Century Netherlandish Drawing (images 23-36 are by Rembrandt)
Articles:
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
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 NEW!
An article on Rembrandt attributions and also an interview with the director of the Rembrandt Research Project
Artnet Magazine
A seated Young Man with Long Hair, his Hands Folded, drawing
Artnet Magazine
Portrait of Man in Red Doublet, 1633
International Herald Tribune
"The Human Condition in Rembrandt's Eyes," article by Souren Melikian
International Herald Tribune
"The Unsolved Riddle of Rembrandt's Women," article by Souren Melikian
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Hendrickje Stoffels, ca.1654-56
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Self-portrait, ca.1663
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Hendrickje Stoffels, ca.1654-60
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
Multimedia:
Sotheby's
Short film: "Restoring Rembrandt's St. James the Greater"
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