REMBRANDT: THE LATE WORKS │ National Gallery, London → 18 January 2015

A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?), 1654

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Joan Deyman, 1656, Amsterdam Museum, Oil on canvas, 100 x 134 cm

Portrait of a Lady with an Ostrich Feather Fan, c. 1658/1660, oil on canvas transferred to canvas, Widener Collection, 99.5 x 83cm

The Syndics (1662), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Portrait of a Lady with a Lap Dog, about 1662-5, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife, 1655, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Scala, Florence / Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin. Photo: Jörg Anders

The Suicide of Lucretia, 1666, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, oil on canvas, 109 x 93 cm

The Jewish Bride, oil on canvas (circa 1665-1669). Photograph: Alamy

The Conspiracy of the Batavians under Claudius Civilis. Photograph: The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden

Self Portrait at the Age of 63, 1669, oil on canvas. Photograph: The National Gallery

Self Portrait with Two Circles, circa 1665-9. Photo: English Heritage

(Posted 15 October 2014. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)

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“Rembrant’s lêtr yirz wr trbylnt n māct wɖ cntrovsi, bt ɖe olso pṛdyst sm v hiz most soulfl, dīpli mūvñ n strîcñli modn wrcs.

Hvñ olrdi sufrd ɖ ŕli los v hiz wîf n ʈri v ɖer čildṛn, Rembrant’s lêtr yirz wr brdnd wɖ bancrupsi, acrimoňs līgl pṛsidñz wɖ a fwmr luvr, n ɖ los v hiz comnlw wîf n onli rmenñ son. Hvr, far fṛm diminišñ az h êjd, Rembrant’s crı̣tiṿti gaɖrd ny eṇji.

Fṛm ɖ 1650z untl hiz deʈ in 1669, Rembrant psyd an ātistc stîl ɖt wz xpresv n radicl. Hiz bold mnipylešn v printñ n pêntñ tecnīcs n pṛgresv intrpṛtešnz v tṛdišnl subjcts inspîrd jeṇrešnz v ātists, ŕnñ hm a repytešn az ɖ grtst mastr v ɖ Duč Goldn Êj.

Ʈru fems mastrpìsz n rer drōñz n prints, Ɖ Lêt Wrcs xaminz ɖ ʈīmz ɖt priokpîd Rembrant az h gru oldr: selfscrūṭni, xperimentešn, lît, obẓvešn v evrīde lîf n īvn uʈr ātists’ wrcs; az wel az xprešnz v intiṃsi, contmplešn, conflict n recnsiliešn.

Īvn ʈri-n-a-hāf senčriz aftr hiz deʈ, Rembrant cntinyz t astoniš n amez. Hiz tecnicl invnšnz, n hiz pṛfând insît intu hymn imošnz, r az freš n reḷvnt tde az ɖe wr in ɖ 17^ʈ senčri.

Rembrant: Ɖ Lêt Wrcs, ōġnîzd bî ɖ Našnl Gaḷri, Lundn, n ɖ Rîcsṃseum, Amsṭdam, ofrz y an oṗtyṇti t xpirı̣ns ɖ pašn, imošn n iṇvešn v ɖ grt mastr.”

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