Pilate Washing His Hands
Rembrandt · probably 1660s · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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About this picture
Pilate Washing His Hands is a public-domain painting by Rembrandt, dated probably 1660s. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Pilate Washing His Hands” (probably 1660s) is from Rembrandt’s Amsterdam work: portraits, biblical scenes, or the etchings in which the darkest passages do as much as the line.
About the artist
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher in Amsterdam. He is known for portraits, biblical scenes, and self-portraits that follow his face from youth into old age, and for etchings that use deep darks.
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