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Rembrandt’s Son Titus in a Monk’s Habit
Also titled Rembrandts zoon Titus in monniksdracht
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
1660
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 79.5 cm x width 67.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1933; formerly Stroganoff Collection, St Petersburg
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Rembrandt portrayed his son Titus with downcast eyes and wearing a Franciscan habit. The rules of this monastic order prescribed a life of poverty and humility. Indicative of this are the coarse robe and the introspective gaze on the boy’s gaunt face, on which Rembrandt has focussed all his attention. The surroundings, with rocks and bushes, are only summarily suggested.
