Where can you see Rembrandt in New York?

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aristotle with a Bust of Homer and Self-Portrait. At the Frick Collection: Self-Portrait and The Polish Rider. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Rembrandt's most famous work in New York?

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, of 1653, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The philosopher, in the sleeves of a Renaissance prince, rests his hand on the head of the blind poet and thinks. A nobleman of Messina ordered it from Rembrandt by letter, and it sailed to Sicily.

When and where was Rembrandt born?

On 15 July 1606, at Leiden, Netherlands. Rembrandt died on 4 October 1669, at Amsterdam, Netherlands, aged about 63.

What is Rembrandt known for?

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer cost the Met a record price in 1961. The Frick's self-portrait of 1658 is the largest he painted. The Met has one of the biggest groups of his paintings outside the Netherlands. Rembrandt was a Dutch painter, of the Dutch Golden Age.

Painter, 1606 to 1669

Rembrandt

The American collectors of the Gilded Age wanted Rembrandt above every other painter, and paid whatever it took. What they bought is now on Fifth Avenue.

Born: 1606, Leiden, Netherlands
Died: 1669, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Movement: Dutch Golden Age
In New York: 4 works in 2 museums

Where to see Rembrandt in New York

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art2 works

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
1653
The philosopher, in the sleeves of a Renaissance prince, rests his hand on the head of the blind poet and thinks. A nobleman of Messina ordered it from Rembrandt by letter, and it sailed to Sicily.
Self-Portrait
1660
Rembrandt at fifty-four, in a painter's cap, four years after his bankruptcy. He does not flatter the face.

Frick Collection2 works

Self-Portrait
1658
The largest of his self-portraits: seated square to us in a gold tunic with a stick in his hand, like a king on a throne, in the worst year of his fortunes. It hangs in the West Gallery.
The Polish Rider
about 1655
A young horseman in a fur cap rides through a dark landscape, looking back. Nobody knows who he is or what the picture meant, which is part of its hold.

The life of Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn was born in Leiden in 1606 and worked in Amsterdam from 1631 until his death in 1669. He was the most sought-after portrait painter of the city in his thirties and a bankrupt at fifty, and it is the paintings of his last, poorer years that are now thought his greatest.

They reached New York from the 1880s onwards, as bankers and industrialists bought from the old collections of Europe. Henry Clay Frick hung his Rembrandts in the house he built on Fifth Avenue. The Metropolitan Museum received others by gift, and in 1961 paid 2.3 million dollars at auction for the Aristotle, then the highest price ever given for a painting.

What to know

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer cost the Met a record price in 1961
The Frick's self-portrait of 1658 is the largest he painted
The Met has one of the biggest groups of his paintings outside the Netherlands

Born: 15 July 1606, Leiden, Netherlands
Died: 4 October 1669, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rembrandt: common questions

Where can you see Rembrandt in New York?: At the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aristotle with a Bust of Homer and Self-Portrait. At the Frick Collection: Self-Portrait and The Polish Rider. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Rembrandt's most famous work in New York?: Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, of 1653, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The philosopher, in the sleeves of a Renaissance prince, rests his hand on the head of the blind poet and thinks. A nobleman of Messina ordered it from Rembrandt by letter, and it sailed to Sicily.
When and where was Rembrandt born?: On 15 July 1606, at Leiden, Netherlands. Rembrandt died on 4 October 1669, at Amsterdam, Netherlands, aged about 63.
What is Rembrandt known for?: Aristotle with a Bust of Homer cost the Met a record price in 1961. The Frick's self-portrait of 1658 is the largest he painted. The Met has one of the biggest groups of his paintings outside the Netherlands. Rembrandt was a Dutch painter, of the Dutch Golden Age.

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