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Rembrandt, Composition, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible (after)1947
1947
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Medium: Lithograph on vélin Hamilton Kilmory paper
Year: 1947
Paper Size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the folio, Rembrandt, Drawings from the Bible, 1947. Published and printed by Schocken Books, Inc., New York, in an edition of MM. Excerpted from the folio, The thirty-two drawings in this collection were made over a period of thirty years, a period covering most of Rembrandt early painting. The intense preoccupation with biblical themes to which they bear witness was doubtless inherited from the devout Protestant home in which he was born and raised. During the years of his youth there lived in his native Leyden those Pilgrims who were to make the Bible the law of a new home in America. One senses, in Rembrandt's early painting of his mother absorbed in reading the Bible, the power the biblical tradition exercised in his home. It is natural then that among his earliest known works there should be scenes from the Bible. Much less natural, however, is the fact that he returned again and again to these subjects throughout his life, that when he died at the age of sixty-three a large painting of Mordecai, Esther, and Ahasuerus stood in his studio. For Protestant devotion to Scripture was austerely moral rather than sensual; it valued ethics, not esthetics. The plain, bare Meeting House of Protestant society offered painters neither the spiritual satisfaction nor the remuneration of a patronized religious art. Notoriety and substance were only to be had by portraying its wealthy burghers. And yet of some six hundred known paintings by Rembrandt about a hundred and fifty depict scenes from the Bible. The piety of his home bent the twig but gave the branch no nourishment. A sensual, visual image was needed for an art that used biblical themes not as icons and religious symbols but as tales of human pathos. This image Rembrandt found in the Spanish Jews newly arrived in Amsterdam. A colorful and alien element among the sober Dutch, strange in apparel, strange in the very cast of their faces, they attracted the young man who had never left his little country. In an age of Baroque, with Italy still considered the mother of the arts, the Amsterdam ghetto may at first have been simply a refuge from the unexciting sobriety of Dutch life. Possibly he saw in these exotic immigrants merely models for Oriental scenes; perhaps only later did he identify them with their biblical ancestors. In the end, however, his interest becomes so deep and so intimate-his own misfortunes blending with theirs-that the Bible tale is simply the vehicle for a study in human emotion.
REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN (1606-1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art. It is estimated Rembrandt produced a total of about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and two thousand drawings. Unlike most Dutch painters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes and animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.
Rembrandt never went abroad but was considerably influenced by the work of the Italian Old Masters and Dutch and Flemish artists who had studied in Italy. After he achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. Rembrandt's portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible are regarded as his greatest creative triumphs. His approximately 40 self-portraits form an intimate autobiography.
- Creation Year:1947
- Dimensions:Height: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)
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- After:Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669, Dutch)
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- Gallery Location:Fairfield, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1342116173322
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