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The Meeting of Jacob And Rachel at the Well

The Meeting of Jacob And Rachel at the Well by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with framing line in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 6 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (16.8 x 26.7 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1906

Accession Number

06.1042.10

Tags

MenWomenCowsGoatsTrees

About the Artist

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 16061669

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...

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