Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus

Rembrandt
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer

The Hundred Guilder Print (Christ Preaching; Bring Thy Little Children Unto Me), c. 1649
In the years that followed the start of the portrait head series, Rembrandt would place variations of his hauntingly human vision of Christ into more complicated compositions like this famous etching, called the Hundred Guilder Print because that was the incredible price it fetched on the market at the time.

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