PAST EXHIBITION: SENSATION: REMBRANDT'S FIRST PAINTINGS
SENSATION: REMBRANDT'S FIRST PAINTINGS
16 September – 27 November 2016
The Senses are the earliest surviving works by the most famous of all Dutch artists, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669).
Painted when he was around eighteen years old, the four panels depict representations of 'Sight', 'Touch', 'Hearing' and 'Smell', the fifth – 'Sense of Taste' – remains undiscovered. This is the very first time that the four surviving panel paintings have been on show together in public, after 'Smell' was rediscovered in 2015.
These paintings were on display at the Ashmolean Museum 16 September – 27 November 2016.
