Best Rembrandt

The Return of the Prodigal Son is a late painting by Rembrandt, generally dated to the final years of his life and now held by the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. It depicts the conclusion of Christ's parable in which a wayward son returns home and is received by his father, while severa...

The Jewish Bride is an oil painting by Rembrandt, generally dated to the mid-1660s and now held by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It shows a richly dressed man placing one hand on a woman's shoulder and another on her chest as she gently touches his hand. The sitters' identities remain uncertain, whi...

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, now in the Mauritshuis in The Hague. It portrays Amsterdam surgeon Nicolaes Tulp demonstrating the anatomy of a cadaver's arm to members of the surgeons' guild during a public dissection. Rembrandt transformed the...

Rembrandt's only full-length portraits (1634), depicting Amsterdam merchant Marten Soolmans and his wife Oopjen Coppit, were jointly acquired by the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre in 2016.

Danaë is a mythological subject painted by multiple masters including Titian, who produced several versions from the 1540s onward, depicting the princess receiving Zeus disguised as a shower of gold, from Ovid's Metamorphoses.