The Circumcision in the Stable
The naming and circumcision of Jesus staged inside the Bethlehem stable, with the shepherds still present — Rembrandt's distinctive reading of Luke 2:21.
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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.