Rijksmuseum

De kruisafname bij fakkellicht

Date: 1654
Medium: Japanese paper (handmade paper)
Institution: Rijksmuseum

Here Rembrandt renders only the lower part of the Cross, with men carefully lowering Christ’s body to be buried. They are deadly still. Someone under the ladder illuminates them with a torch, the only source of light in the scene. Everything immediately around the flame is brightly lit, but slightly further away the details vanish into the darkness of the night.

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