Dutch & Flemish seventeenth - century paintings. The Harold Samuel Collection.

Wheelock, Arthur K. Peter C. Sutton, Volker Manuth, Anne T. Woollett , NAional Gallery of Art Washington in Association with The University of Chicago Press. 2005, cm.22x27, pp.152, ill.a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata,in tuta tela, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. One of the most fascinating aspects of Rembrandt's extraordinary artistic career is his suite of brooding half-length portraits of religious figures from the late 1650s and early 1660s. Painted during a difficult time in the artist's life--when he no longer enjoyed a ready market for his works and may have turned to his deep religious convictions for solace--these images are among the most evocative Rembrandt created. For years scholars have debated whether these paintings were intended as a series, yet until now these works have, unbelievably, never been shown together