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Anatomy Lesson of Dr. N. Tulp
Rembrandt van Rijn
Article nr
MA007CAP
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This reproduction on canvas of Anatomy Lesson of Dr. N. Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn is made with the greatest possible care to ensure that the colours are very close to the original painting that is hanging in the Mauritshuis Museum.
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About the original:
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Anatomy Lesson of Dr. N. Tulp 1632, Oil on Canvas, 169.5 x 216.5 cm, Collection Mauritshuis.
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About the original artwork
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. N. Tulp
This reproduction on canvas of Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn is made in cooperation with the Mauritshuis Museum, where the original painting is hanging. In 1632 the 25-year-old Rembrandt gets the most important commission of his young career. Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the man with the black hat, asks him to paint a group portrait. Tulp gave lessons to Amsterdam surgeons, doctors who carried out simple operations. Once a year he dissected a cadaver in front of his pupils. Lessons in human anatomy were open to the public and aroused great interest. They were held in the anatomical theatre in the weighing house on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam. Group portraits were usually a stiff affair, composed of a row of heads.
But not in Rembrandt's case, he added action and movement and turned it into theatre. He had each surgeon react in a different way; bending over, looking at the dissected arm or at the book on the right or staring straight at us. Rembrandt placed his group portrait in a bright light which shines directly on the heads in front and on the white cadaver, which does literally comes under the spotlight. It's the body of the notorious criminal, Aris Kindt, who had been hung shortly before. However realistic the scene might look, it's not completely veracious.
In fact, Tulp must have started his lesson by dissecting the abdomen as the intestines of a first to decay. Maybe Rembrandt thought that such an open belly would be too distracting. Dr. Tulp demonstrates the workings of the hand, using the forceps to lift up a bundle of muscles and tendons attached to the fingers. He makes a reinforcing gesture with his left hand. Rembrandt made his breakthrough in Amsterdam with this impressive group portrait. In the course of the 1630's he became the city's most prominent portrait painter.
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Anatomy Lesson of Dr. N. Tulp 1632, Oil on canvas, 169.5x216.5cm, Collection Mauritshuis.
This reproduction on canvas of Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn is made in cooperation with the Mauritshuis Museum, where the original painting is hanging. In 1632 the 25-year-old Rembrandt gets the most important commission of his young career. Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the man with the black hat, asks him to paint a group portrait. Tulp gave lessons to Amsterdam surgeons, doctors who carried out simple operations. Once a year he dissected a cadaver in front of his pupils. Lessons in human anatomy were open to the public and aroused great interest. They were held in the anatomical theatre in the weighing house on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam. Group portraits were usually a stiff affair, composed of a row of heads.
But not in Rembrandt's case, he added action and movement and turned it into theatre. He had each surgeon react in a different way; bending over, looking at the dissected arm or at the book on the right or staring straight at us. Rembrandt placed his group portrait in a bright light which shines directly on the heads in front and on the white cadaver, which does literally comes under the spotlight. It's the body of the notorious criminal, Aris Kindt, who had been hung shortly before. However realistic the scene might look, it's not completely veracious.
In fact, Tulp must have started his lesson by dissecting the abdomen as the intestines of a first to decay. Maybe Rembrandt thought that such an open belly would be too distracting. Dr. Tulp demonstrates the workings of the hand, using the forceps to lift up a bundle of muscles and tendons attached to the fingers. He makes a reinforcing gesture with his left hand. Rembrandt made his breakthrough in Amsterdam with this impressive group portrait. In the course of the 1630's he became the city's most prominent portrait painter.
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Anatomy Lesson of Dr. N. Tulp 1632, Oil on canvas, 169.5x216.5cm, Collection Mauritshuis.