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The Jewish Bride
Het Joodse bruidje
A man lays his hand tenderly on a woman's breast, her hand over his.
Nobody knows who they are: a couple of Rembrandt's day dressed up as Isaac and Rebecca from the Bible, perhaps. The name was only given in the 19th century.
Rembrandt laid the paint of the man's golden sleeve on thick with a palette knife. Van Gogh, seeing it in 1885, said he would give ten years of his life to sit before it for a fortnight with only a crust of dry bread. Stand before it in 3D ›
