Isaac and Rebecca, Known as ‘The Jewish Bride’

Widely regarded as the summit of Rembrandt’s late art, this intimate double portrait so impressed Vincent van Gogh that he wrote it was his ambition to paint with the same tenderness. Scholars identify the embracing couple as the biblical Isaac and Rebecca, though the identity remains debated. It was painted in Amsterdam when Rembrandt, increasingly withdrawn from the public commissions of his earlier career, turned inward toward the psychology of private life.