By Rembrandt (1606–1669), Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver, 1629, oil on oak wood, 79 x 102.3 cm (31.1 x 40.2 inches), Mulgrave Castle, Lythe, North Yorkshire. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting
The artist was 23 years old! From Holland Cotter, “‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece,’ a Portrait of a Biblical Betrayal,” The New York Times, June 2, 2016: “The painting… is powerful in ways that Rembrandt’s great work turned out to be, with its operatic, Verdian largeness of gesture, its sense for light as both specific and cosmic, and its piercing, unembarrassable instinct for human emotion.”