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REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn: Jupiter and Mercury visiting Philemon and Baucis

🖼 Jupiter and Mercury visiting Philemon and Baucis, c. 1655
Reed pen and brown ink, white body colour
131 × 192 cm
Berlin, Germany

Golden light bathes two elderly figures welcoming disguised gods into their humble cottage, rendered with Rembrandt's characteristic chiaroscuro and warm palette. The scene illustrates classical virtue rewarded—a theme exploring divine grace and human hospitality through intimate, psychologically nuanced portraiture.

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