REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Self-portrait leaning on a stone sill</em> 1639 <!-- (recto) --><br /> etching, touched with black chalk<br /> 20.5 x 16.4 cm (plate) 20.8 x 16.6 cm (sheet)<br /> 1st of 2 states<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased, 1891<br /> p.186.5-1<br /> <!--40199-->

Rembrandt

True to Life

NGV International

2 Jun – 10 Sep 23

Rembrandt: True to Life follows the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch master from his early years in Leiden through to his final years in Amsterdam. Exploring Rembrandt’s innovations in printmaking, the exhibition presents more than 100 etchings from the NGV Collection, alongside important paintings and loans from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. Rembrandt: True to Life is the most comprehensive exhibition of this extraordinary artist’s work to be held in Australia in 25 years.

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<br/> Installation view of <em>Rembrandt: True to Life</em> at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Tom Ross<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Installation view of <em>Rembrandt: True to Life</em> at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Tom Ross<br/>

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Key works

REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Self-portrait leaning on a stone sill</em> 1639 <!-- (recto) --><br /> etching, touched with black chalk<br /> 20.5 x 16.4 cm (plate) 20.8 x 16.6 cm (sheet)<br /> 1st of 2 states<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased, 1891<br /> p.186.5-1<br /> <!--40199--> REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Self-portrait</em> 1659<br/> oil on canvas<br/> 84.5 × 66.0 cm<br/> National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC<br/> Andrew W. Mellon Collection (1937.1.72)<br/> Photo: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Self-portrait in a cap, wide-eyed and open-mouthed</em> 1630<br/> etching, 2nd state<br/> 5.0 × 4.5 cm<br/> Bartsch 320; Hind 32; White & Boon 320; NHD ii/ii<br/> Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam<br/> Transfer, 1816 (RP-P-OB-697)<br/> Photo: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Two old men disputing</em> (1628) <!-- (recto) --><br /> oil on wood panel<br /> 72.4 x 59.7 cm<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Felton Bequest, 1936<br /> 349-4<br /> <!--4291--> REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels with velvet beret</em> c. 1654<br/> oil on canvas<br/> 74.0 × 61.0 cm<br/> Musée du Louvre, Paris (INV 1751)<br/> Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Tony Querrec REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Woman in North Holland dress, seen from the back (‘Geertje Dircx’)</em> (<em>Vrouw in Noordhollands kostuum, op de rug gezien [‘Geertje Dircx’]</em>) c. 1640–45 <br/> pen and brush<br/> 22.2 × 15.4 cm (sheet)<br/> Schatborn 294 <br/> Teylers Museum, Haarlem <br/> (O+ 051)<br/> Photo © Teylers Museum REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>The three trees</em> 1643 <!-- (recto) --><br /> etching, drypoint and engraving<br /> 21.3 x 28.0 cm (plate) 21.6 x 28.4 cm (sheet)<br /> only state<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased, 1891<br /> p.185.7-1<br /> <!--40121--> REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Abraham's Sacrifice</em> 1655 <!-- (recto) --><br /> etching and drypoint<br /> 15.7 x 13.3 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)<br /> only state<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Felton Bequest, 1933<br /> 59-4<br /> <!--38397--> REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>A blind hurdy-gurdy player and family receiving alms</em> 1648 <!-- (recto) --><br /> etching and drypoint<br /> 16.6 x 13.0 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)<br /> 1st of 5 states<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased, 1891<br /> p.185.9-1<br /> <!--40077--> REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>Adam and Eve</em> (<em>Zondeval</em>) 1638<br/> etching <br/> 16.3 × 11.6 cm (plate)<br/> 16.9 × 12.4 cm (sheet)<br/> Teylers Museum, Haarlem <br/> (KG 03558)<br/> Photo © M. Zegel / Teylers Museum REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn<br/> <em>The Hundred Guilder print</em> (c. 1648) <!-- (recto) --><br /> etching, drypoint and engraving on Japanese paper<br /> 28.1 x 39.4 cm (plate) 28.5 x 39.7 cm (sheet)<br /> 2nd of 4 states<br /> National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne<br /> Purchased, 1891<br /> p.186.1-1<br /> <!--40154-->

Watch & Read

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NGV Conservation: Rembrandt’s tools Rembrandt: True to Life
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Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria
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Rembrandt’s Shell – conus marmoreus L.
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Rembrandt Abraham Francen, apothecary and Studies of the head of Saskia and others

Publication

Exhibition catalogue

Rembrandt: True to Life charts the career of the seventeenth-century Dutch master, with lavish illustrations of the artist’s works alongside new scholarship on his life, times and extraordinary oeuvre.

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National Gallery of Victoria

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1 May 23

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