Rembrandt

Night Watch, self-portraits

The greatest painter of the human soul. His late self-portraits — unflinching, tender, searching — are the most profound psychological documents in all of art. No one has ever painted light and shadow with such authority, or used them to reveal such depth of feeling.

Key works

• Night Watch1642— The most famous Dutch painting
  Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Self-portraits1629–1669— ~80 paintings tracing a life
  Various — Rijksmuseum; Metropolitan Museum, New York; National Gallery, London; Frick, New York
• Return of the Prodigal Son~1668— Forgiveness made visible
  Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

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