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…
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Philemon and Baucis

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 - 1669)

1658

Medium
oil on panel transferred to panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 54.5 x 68.5 cm (21 7/16 x 26 15/16 in.) ; framed: 81.3 x 95.9 x 8.3 cm (32 x 37 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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