The Denial of Saint Peter
In the high priest's courtyard Peter denies that he knows Jesus, warming himself by the fire as a servant girl presses him (Luke 22). An oil painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1660).
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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.