Title of Artwork: “St. Matthew and The Angel”
Artwork by Rembrandt
Year Created 1661
Summary of St. Matthew and The Angel
The Dutch scenery artist Rembrandt painted St. Matthew with the Angel in oil on canvas around the year 1661. This picture is a notable example of Dutch Golden Age art, and it may be found in the Louvre.
All About St. Matthew and The Angel
The Dutch art historian Hofstede de Groot documented this picture in 1914.
He’s reading a book at a table in the back, looking off into the horizon with deep thought. He’s slanted to the right and sporting a brightly hued headgear. His scruffy beard is being tended to with his left hand while he rests a pen in his right.
A long, slack robe of a chestnut brown colour drapes over him. Angel with flowing, white hair appears behind the evangelist from the left, places his right hand on his shoulder, and begins to speak. Size and proportions of one half of a human being. Cf. 172 and 174-5. Canvas, 38 by 32 inches with the signature “Rembrandt f. 1661″ in the top right corner. The works of Vosmaer (pp. 361, 562), Bode (pp. 523, 594), Dutuit (p. 35), and Michel (pp. Claessens’s etching is housed in the Musée Francais, while Oortman’s is in the Musée Napoléon; both are shown in Filhol (viii.509) and Landon (ii.57). Displayed as No. 2538 in the Louvre’s 1907 catalogue.”
Rembrandt’s composition with the angel serving as a helper was inspired by an earlier painting by Frans Hals.
Information Citations
En.wikipedia.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/.
