Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
When the accusers bring a woman caught in adultery, Christ stoops to write on the ground and tells them, let him who is without sin cast the first stone (John 8). An oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1644).
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About Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 · Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker whose biblical works — in oil, panel, and etching — remain among the most psychologically searching treatments of Scripture in Western art.