Year 1626 Artist Rembrandt Location Private collection Genre History painting | Medium Oil on panel Period Baroque Created 1626 | |
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Dimensions 64 cm × 47.5 cm (25 in × 18.7 in) Similar Rembrandt artwork, Baroque artwork, Artwork at Private collection | ||
The Baptism of the Eunuch is a 1626 painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, owned by the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht since 1976. It shows Philip the Evangelist baptising an Ethiopian man, a eunuch, on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, traditionally marking the start of the Ethiopian Church (Acts 8:26-39).
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The Baptism of the Eunuch Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA