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The Denial of St Peter
Also titled De verloochening van Petrus
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1660
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 154.5 cm x width 169.5 cm x thickness 3.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
While Christ is being questioned by the high priests in the dead of night, Peter waits outside. A maidservant recognizes him as one of Christ’s disciples, but Peter is afraid and denies it three times. In the right background, Christ is being led away, looking back over his shoulder at Peter who has betrayed him.
