January 30 – May 1, 2005 West Building, Main Floor, Galleries 50 and 51
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Apostle Paul, c. 1657, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.59
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
A Bearded Man in a Cap, 1657?, oil on canvas, 110.9 x 96.3 x 14.5 cm (43 11/16 x 37 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.), The National Gallery, London
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Apostle Paul, 1657, oil on canvas, 131.5 x 104.4 cm (51 3/4 x 41 1/8), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection, 1942.9.59
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Apostle Bartholomew, 1657, oil on canvas, 122.7 x 99.7 cm (48 5/16 x 39 1/4 in.), The Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
An Elderly Man as the Apostle Paul, 1659?, oil on canvas, 102 x 85.5 cm (40 3/16 x 33 11/16 in.), The National Gallery, London
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
Hendrickje Stoffels (as the Sorrowing Virgin?), 1660, oil on canvas, 78.4 x 68.9 cm (30 7/8 x 27 1/8 in.), Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Archer M. Huntington, in memory of his father, Collis Potter Huntington
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Resurrected Christ, 1661, oil on canvas, 78.5 x 63 cm (30 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.), Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Evangelist Matthew and the Angel, 1661, oil on canvas, 96 x 81 cm (37 13/16 x 31 7/8 in.), Musée du Louvre, Paris
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Apostle Bartholomew, 1661, oil on canvas, 86.7 x 75.6 cm (34 1/8 x 29 3/4 in), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Apostle James the Major, 1661, oil on canvas, 94 x 79.6 cm (37 x 31 5/16 in), Private collection
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Apostle Simon, 1661, oil on canvas, 98.3 x 79 cm (38 11/16 x 31 1/8 in.), Kunsthaus Zürich
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul, 1661, oil on canvas, 91 x 77 cm (35 13/16 x 30 5/16 in.), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
School of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1661, oil on canvas, 128.27 x 113.03 x 14.61 cm (37 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.), Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
Man in a Red Cap (An Evangelist?), 1660, oil on canvas, 102 x 80 cm (40 3/16x 31 1/2 in.), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
The Virgin of Sorrows, 1661, oil on canvas, 105.6 x 81.1 cm (41 9/16 x 31 15/16 in.), Musée Départemental d'Art Ancien et Contemporain, Épinal
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
Christ, c. 1657-1661, oil on canvas, 134.62 x 116.21 cm (43 x 35 1/2 in.), The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
Monk (Saint Francis?) Reading, 1661, oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm (32 5/16 x 26 in.), Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Linder Collection, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits
Saint Bavo, c.1662-1665, oil on canvas, 138 x 119 x 10 cm (38 3/4 x 31 1/8 in.), Göteborgs konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: 17 half-length portraits of religious figures painted by Rembrandt van Rijn late in life were brought together for the first time from private and public collections in the United States and Europe. Scholars had long wondered whether the paintings, roughly similar in size and composition, formed part of a series.
The Camerata Trajectina presented special family concerts of 17th-century Dutch music on January 30 and February 6 in the West Building Lecture Hall in conjunction with the exhibition.
Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque painting at the National Gallery, was the curator.
Sponsor: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Saunders III supported the exhibition in Washington. The exhibition received an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Attendance: 266,986
Catalog:Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits, by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. et al. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, in association with the University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Brochure:Rembrandt. NGAkids Inside Scoop. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005.
Other Venues: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, June 7–August 28, 2005
