Supper at Emmaus
Rembrandt van Rijn
ca. 1660
Medium
reed pen and brown ink, with some areas deliberately rubbed with a finger or wet brush, on light brown cartridge paper; framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
167; 130
About this artwork
Gift of C. Hofstede de Groot, The Hague
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...