Menasseh ben Israel
Medium
etching
Dimensions
107; 149
About this artwork
Dit portret is lange tijd beschouwd als de beeltenis van de Joodse Samuel Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657), wiens vader met zijn gezin uit Spanje was uitgeweken en sinds 1616 in Amsterdam woonde. A.K. Offenberg (Menasseh-ben-Israel, een biografische schets, Amsterdam 2000) betwist deze identificatie.
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...