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Shown from about the knees up, an older, bearded, pale-skinned man sits at a desk with his head in one hand in a shadowy room in this vertical painting. His body is angled to our right, and he sits in a heavy wooden armchair next to a desk. His left elbow, farther from us, rests on the chair’s arm, and he holds that hand to his forehead. He holds a quill with his other hand, which brushes his knee. He has ash-brown hair covered at the back by a cap and a long shaggy beard. He looks off to our right with dark, shaded eyes. His voluminous brown robe is brushed loosely with golden brown…

The Apostle Paul

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

c. 1657 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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