Rembrandt: True to Life

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Self-portrait in a cap, wide-eyed and open-mouthed 1630,
etching, 2nd state, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Photo: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Rembrandt: True to Life follows the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch master from his early years in Leiden through to his final years in Amsterdam. Exploring Rembrandt’s innovations in printmaking, the exhibition presents more than 100 etchings from the NGV Collection, alongside important paintings and loans from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. Rembrandt: True to Life is the most comprehensive exhibition of this extraordinary artist’s work to be held in Australia in 25 years.

The website includes an online presentation of the exhibition, about Rembrandt’s watermarked paper, and a recreation of Rembrandt’s own collection of curiosities, books, works on paper, Mughal miniatures and maps.