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Written by MMaxi in Drawings and Etchings on 24 May 2008 à 00:14Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Using vigorous lines Rembrandt has drawn a corpulent man leaning across a table-top with his arms crossed. The man's floppy hat tilts forward slightly, casting a shadow onto his podgy face. Rembrandt used brown gallnut ink - a type containing iron - and this...
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Written by MMaxi in Art Paintings and sculptures on 24 December 2007 à 14:44The man portrayed here, Dr Ephraim Bueno (1599-1665), was a well-known Jewish physician and man of letters. Rembrandt painted this sketch in oils in 1647. It is a preliminary study for an etching of Dr Bueno. It is the only known sketch in oils for a portrait print by Rembrandt.
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Written by MMaxi in Art Paintings and sculptures on 30 October 2007 à 19:07Artist Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Year 1633 Rembrandt painted this portrait of Saskia Uylenburgh in 1633. She was twenty years old at the time and had just become engaged to Rembrandt. They were married a year later. Saskia was the niece of the art dealer Hendrick Uylenburgh, in whose...
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Written by MMaxi in Art Paintings and sculptures on 4 October 2007 à 01:00...and behind her an architectural fragment. The picture, called the 'Jewish Bride', was painted by Rembrandt in 1667. It is one of the most famous and mysterious paintings in the museum's collection. Jewish bride? The painting became known as the 'Jewish Bride' in the early nineteenth century...
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Written by MMaxi in Drawings and Etchings on 30 September 2007 à 23:35Artist Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Rembrandt was about 22 when he drew this self portrait. The manner in which it is drawn is loose and sketch-like. His characteristic features, the unkempt head of curly hair, the wide nose and faint moustache, are accurately captured. Rembrandt began by...
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Written by MMaxi in Drawings and Etchings on 5 November 2006 à 22:09Rembrandt Van Rijn ( 1606 - 1669 ) Pen and brown ink with brown wash, touched with white, 184x246mm
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Written by MMaxi in Drawings and Etchings on 31 October 2006 à 17:36Pen and brown ink with grey wash, 127x95mm Born to a family of millers in Leiden, Rembrandt left university at 14 to pursue a career as an artist. The decision turned out to be a good one since after serving his apprenticeship in Amsterdam he was singled out by Constantijn Huygens, the most...
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Written by MMaxi in Drawings and Etchings on 31 October 2006 à 00:57Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Brush and brown wash with some white bodycolour, 246x203mm
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Written by MMaxi in Drawings and Etchings on 31 October 2006 à 00:49Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) Pen and brown iron-gall ink, on paperwashed brown, 188x164mm At The British Museum