Abraham verstoot Hagar en Ismael
Rembrandt van Rijn
ca. 1650
Medium
pen and brown ink, some areas deliberately rubbed with a finger or wet brush; framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
224; 171
About this artwork
height 171 mm x width 224 mm
About the Artist
Rembrandt van Rijn · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...