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The Holy Family with Angels

Mary reads by the fire; the infant Christ sleeps in his cradle as angels descend in a stream of light. State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

The Holy Family with Angels by Rembrandt van Rijn depicting Matthew 2:13
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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.