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Three men and a woman sit around a wooden table on the right side of a dimly lit room in this horizontal painting. The scene is painted entirely in warm shades of bronze, golden yellow, and dark brown. A cleanshaven man to our right, Mercury, is dramatically backlit by golden light so we see his face almost in silhouette, though we can make out his eyes, straight nose, and parted lips. He rests both hands on the table, one palm down by the edge close to him and one palm up in front of him, near a glass of amber-colored liquid. He wears a gray and brown tunic, and light glinting in his…

Philemon and Baucis

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

1658 · oil on panel transferred to panel

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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