Museum Exhibition
Rembrandt Portraits
Art Institute of Chicago
March 3, 2019 – June 9, 2019
Two rarely loaned works from the Norton Simon Museum, a spectacular self-portrait and Portrait of a Boy, join the museum’s iconic Rembrandt paintings for a focused look at the artist’s fluid approach to portraiture.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work

Gerard ter Borch the Younger
The Music Lesson
c. 1670
Oil on canvas
63.6 × 50.4 cm (25 × 19 7/8 in.); Framed: 84.8 × 70.8 × 6.4 cm (33 3/8 × 27 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
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Jan Steen
The Family Concert
1666
Oil on canvas
86.6 × 101 cm (34 1/8 × 39 3/4 in.); Framed: 101.6 × 115.6 × 5.1 cm (40 × 45 1/2 × 2 in.)
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Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn
Young Woman at an Open Half-Door
1645
Oil on canvas
102.5 × 85.1 cm (40 3/8 × 33 1/2 in.); Framed: 121.6 × 104.4 × 5.7 cm (47 7/8 × 41 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
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Meindert Hobbema
The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
c. 1665
Oil on canvas
81.3 × 110 cm (32 × 43 1/4 in.); Framed: 101.3 × 130.5 × 8.3 cm (39 7/8 × 51 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Old Man with a Gold Chain
1631
Oil on panel
83.1 × 75.7 cm (32 3/4 × 29 3/4 in.); Framed: 105.1 × 99.5 cm (41 3/8 × 39 3/16 in.)
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Jan van de Cappelle
Fishing Boats in a Calm
1651
Oil on canvas
57.6 × 71.2 cm (22 11/16 × 28 in.); Framed: 78.7 × 93.4 × 5.7 cm (31 × 36 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
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Jan van Goyen
Fishing Boats off an Estuary
1633
Oil on panel
36 × 57.8 cm (14 1/8 × 22 3/4 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 78.1 × 5.1 cm (22 1/2 × 30 3/4 × 2 in.)
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