A Rembrandt picture is a live entity existing according to its own laws， reflecting the multitude of thoughts and emotions present in the painter’s mind. Man and his state of mind-this is the fundamental problem which engages the artist his whole life long.

In the days when Dutch merchants traded in the Far East and the Antipodes， a miller named Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn lived in Leyden. He had eyes only for the son who was born on July 15th， 1606，at the start of a century which promised so much and was so auspicious for men of destiny.

  The child was later to be known simply as Rembrandt， his first Christian name. The young Rembrandt soon manifested the artistic skills，which his teachers discerned from his earliest years. After studying the humanities in his home town， the youth who had not yet passed his four-teenth birthday， enrolled at the University clai-ming to be an accomplished draughtsman. In 1621， Rembrandt became the pupil of Jacob van Swanenburgh， and completed his studies in the studio of Pieter Lastman， whose paintings of large frescoes of historical scenes instilled in him a love of precision， detail and sumptuous backgrounds of the type in which his master excelled.Rembrandt’s official apprenticeship was relatively short.

A JOURNEY OF THE MIND

ANNOTATED CATALOGUE

1. CHRIST DRIVING THE MONEYCHANGERS FROM THE TEMPLE

2. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD MAN

3. THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI

4. PORTRAIT OF A BOY

5. YOUNG MAN WITH A LACE COLLAR

6. SASKIA IN ARCADIAN COSTUME

7. THE RISEN CHRIST SHOWING HIS WOUND TO THE APOSTLE THOMAS

8. THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS

9. THE ANGEL STOPPING ABRAHAM FROM SACRIFICING ISAAC TO GOD.

10. THE PARABLE OF THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD

11. BAARTJEN MAERTENS， WIFE OF HERMAN DOOMER

12. DAVID AND JONATHAN

13. AN OLD WOMAN IN AN ARMCHAIR

14. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD MAN

15. THE HOLY FAMILY WITH ANGELS

16. DANAE

17. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN

18. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD MAN IN AN ARMCHAIR

19. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD JEW

20. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN

21. PORTRAIT OF AN OLD WOMAN

22. PORTRAIT OF ADRIAEN VAN RIJN， THE ARTIST’S BROTHER

23. YOUNG LADY TRYING ON EARRINGS

24. CHRIST AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

25. HAMAN AND AHASUERUS AT THE FEAST OF ESTHER

26. A BEARDED MAN

27. THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

28. DAVID AND URIAH

29. THE POET JEREMIAH DE DECKER