Image: public domain, courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Jewish Bride

Rembrandt, c. 1665–69

The couple is probably Isaac and Rebecca from the Bible, caught in a tender moment when they think no one is watching. Rembrandt laid on the paint very thickly and even scratched into it with the end of his brush.

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Did you know?

The title is not Rembrandt’s: an early-1800s collector thought it showed a Jewish father giving his daughter a wedding necklace.
In the Bible, Isaac said Rebecca was his sister to keep them safe, but a king saw their tenderness.
The couple may be a real Amsterdam husband and wife, painted as Isaac and Rebecca.
Look at the hands: his rests gently on her chest, and hers lightly touches his.
Van Gogh said he would give ten years of his life to sit in front of this painting for two weeks.
Rembrandt painted it in his last years; he died in Amsterdam in 1669.