Year c. 1637 Media Oil paint Periods Baroque, Dutch Golden Age | Dimensions 1.61 m x 1.31 m Genres Genre art, Self-portrait | |
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Similar Rembrandt artwork, Artwork at Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister | ||
Rembrandt paintings the prodigal son in the brothel self portrait with saskia
The Prodigal Son in the Brothel is a painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt. It is housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden, Germany. It is signed "REMBRANDT F.".
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- Rembrandt paintings the prodigal son in the brothel self portrait with saskia
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It portrays two people who had been identified as Rembrandt himself and his wife Saskia. In the Protestant contemporary world, the theme of the prodigal son was a frequent subject for works of art due to its moral background. Rembrandt himself painted a Return of the Prodigal Son in 1669.
The left side of the canvas was cut, perhaps by the artist himself, to remove secondary characters and focus the observer's attention on the main theme.
Painting materials
The pigment analysis shows Rembrandt's choice of the usual baroque pigments such as red ochre, lead-tin-yellow, madder lake and smalt and also his elaborate multilayer painting technique.