The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
A museum-exhibition poster of Rembrandt van Rijn's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp — The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp — the surgeons' guild gathered around the dissection — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Dutch Golden Age, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669)
- Year
- 1632
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 169.5 × 216.5 cm
- Collection
- Mauritshuis, The Hague
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age
Dr Nicolaes Tulp, the city anatomist of Amsterdam, lifts the tendons of a dissected forearm with his forceps and explains their action to seven members of the surgeons' guild, who crowd around the pale corpse of an executed criminal, Aris Kindt, on the table. Rembrandt painted the group portrait in 1632, the year after he moved from Leiden to Amsterdam, and it was his first major commission in the city; he was twenty-five. Instead of a row of faces he arranged the surgeons in a pyramid of attention, lit from the left, each reacting to the demonstration. The anatomy of the arm is accurate, though the dissection would in practice have begun with the abdomen. The canvas hung in the guild's anatomy theatre until 1828, when it was bought for the Mauritshuis.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
