School of Rembrandt van Rijn

The School of Rembrandt van Rijn gathers drawn sheets made in the orbit of the Leiden master, working in pen and brush with brown and gray inks and washes across figure studies, biblical narrative, and scenes of everyday life. Seven such drawings belong to this archive, their techniques ranging from reed pen with layered brown and gray washes to pen work touched with three shades of brown. The Met dates the sheets to the middle decades of the seventeenth century, with impressions up to 1651. Subjects move between Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice and the Beheading of Anabaptist Martyrs, and quieter motifs such as an old woman with a baby or a hawker displaying a caged animal.

7 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

A Young Man

1635 · Pen and brush in brown ink; the verso printed in brown.

An Officer Holding a Ceremonial Sword

1640s · Pen and brush and brown inks.

Beheading of Anabaptist Martyrs

ca. 1640 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown and gray wash.

Old Woman with a Baby in her Arms

ca. 1643 · Pen and brown ink, with wash in three shades of brown and gray.

Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice

ca. 1644–45 · Pen and brush and brown ink.

Two Studies for Blind Tobit

ca. 1651 · Pen and brown inks and grayish brown wash.

A Hawker Showing an Animal in a Cage to a Woman and Her Child

mid-17th century · Reed pen and brown ink, pen and gray washes; verso in pen and dark brown ink.