Amersfoort, Simon Hendricksz. van

1630

The subject of this painting comes from the apocryphal Book of Tobit, which tells the story of Tobit, an Israelite living in Assyrian Ninevah. Tobit suffered from blindness and poverty. He sent his son, ...

Mahu, Cornelis

1642

Still life paintings of game birds were immensely popular in the seventeenth century. Here the colorful plumage provides rich visual material, and the additional elements of the glasses, stoneware jug, ...

van Rijn, Rembrandt

1655

This print is one of the most famous in the history of printmaking because of the many reworkings it underwent. It was made entirely in drypoint (lines drawn with a needle directly onto the copper plate, ...

van Rijn, Rembrandt

About 1645

The many details of this farmhouse have led scholars to believe that Rembrandt etched a specific structure from life. Artists, particularly painters, enjoyed the ease of use of the etching needle, as opposed ...

Bol, Ferdinand

1658

Ferdinand Bol was one of Rembrandt's most accomplished pupils. He painted many fashionable portraits of the leading burghers, whose newfound wealth and prestige led to an insatiable desire for likenesses ...

Ruisdael, Jacob van

1660s

Ruisdael is considered one of the greatest Dutch landscape painters. Of the nearly 700 paintings in his oeuvre, this work, signed in the lower left, is one of only about thirty winter scenes. Here Ruisdael ...

Poelenburgh, Cornelis van

Mid 17th century

Considered the most important painter of the first generation of Dutch Italianate artists, Poelenburgh excelled at painting female nudes within biblical or mythological scenes set in Italianate landscapes ...

van Rijn, Rembrandt

1636

Rembrandt married Saskia van Uylenburgh in 1634. He depicted his adored first wife many times before her death in 1642. Here Rembrandt etched Saskia's head from a variety of angles, together with other ...