Title: The Healing of the Mother-in-Law of Saint Peter
Artist: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white.
Size: 17.1 x 18.9 cm
Date: late 1650s
Location: Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris.
Artist: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white.
Size: 17.1 x 18.9 cm
Date: late 1650s
Location: Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris.
Mark 1:29–31 – As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James
and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with
a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her
hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.
When making sketches to serve as models for his
students, Rembrandt often focused on a story's protagonists — in this case,
Christ and the convalescent woman — deliberately excluding any additional
figures. Here he also refrains from making any reference to the setting, save
for a few lively strokes to suggest the bed or blanket on which the woman
reclines. Rembrandt's strategic placement of hatched lines and subtle smudging
of ink create bold contrasts in light and shadow, which underscore the drama of
the event.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 1606 – October 1669) was a Dutch
painter and etcher, generally considered one of the greatest painters and
printmakers in European art history. Throughout his artistic life Rembrandt van
Rijn produced between 300 to 600 paintings, approximately 300 etchings, and
about 1400 drawings. The jury is still out on the exact numbers because in many
cases it is not clear which works were done by Rembrandt himself and which were
painted by his apprentices.
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