Painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn “The Jewish Bride”. The size of the painting is 121.5 x 166.5 cm, oil on canvas. “Rembrandt could have been different if he didn’t need to be literal, as in a portrait, when he could compose, be a poet, a creator. For them, he appears in the painting The Jewish Bride. You have to die many times to write like that” words can be applied to this picture. “You can talk about Frans Halsya’s paintings – he always stays on the ground, but Rembrandt is so immersed in the mystery that he expresses something for which no language has any words,” said Vincent van Gogh of this picture.
Sure, this is a portrait image, but whose? Perhaps the Jewish poet Don Miguel de Barrios and his wife or, rather, the son of Rembrandt Titus and Magdalena van Loo? Or the goldsmith Jan Lutma Jr. and his bride? This picture is a portrait where the figures play certain roles, they depict the Old Testament couple Isaac and Rebekah, who settled in the land of the Philistines and, in fear of posing as brother and sister.
But one day, “Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking out of the window, saw that Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife,” after which he took both under his protection. An earlier Rembrandt drawing also includes an image of a king looking out of a window, but the image of the same biblical scene by Raphael in the Vatican Loggia served as an example for the drawing. It is also possible that certain influences of traditional images – the motive of Jacob and Rachel – were reflected in this picture. But to what height Rembrandt raised his interpretation, clearly every word from the biblical text “played” means nothing more than enjoying a love game, and the composition of this image comes from the fact that the sitting bride, Rebekah, throws her leg over her husband’s hip.
The painting “The Jewish Bride” is the highest and final point in Rembrandt’s striving to combine the special and the universal. He reaches his goal in two ways around the life he sees as part of the Old Testament, and random poses, random gestures reduces to firmly rooted, repetitive and repeated motifs of Mediterranean art. As in every poetic masterpiece of the myth, its embodiment and the reason are one here. Rembrandt portrayed a random love couple in the form of Isaac and Rebekah. Whether the hand gesture is traditional for Jewish engagement or not, this picture is a convincing symbol of the stored commonwealth, transferred from olden times, a picture consecrated by Rembrandt’s feeling, one of the most exciting pictorial masterpieces of the world. “
This painting is an incomparable triumph of Rembrandt’s painting, from its wasteful world of paints there are flaming-red and sunny-golden colors, infused with a bronze-green flashes, spread with a palette knife. This picture is a delight for the gaze, full of “the greatest and most natural movement”, sounding a passionate and passionate hymn to all living things.
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