Rembrandt's etchings

Kenwood House Volunteer, Barbara Goldstein, gives an online talk on Rembrandt’s etchings. Throughout 2019-2020 English Heritage and the Friends of Kenwood have marked the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 1669. The reason for this is that one of his most famous paintings, ‘Self Portrait with Two Circles’, c1665, hangs in the great art collection at Kenwood House, London.

Goldstein describes in her talk how Rembrandt favoured etching, dry point and surface tone over woodcuts and engraving, and illustrates Rembrandt’s artistic progress through this medium with some of his best-known etchings.

Introduction and fade out music: Phaëton, a ‘tragédie en musique’ composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-87), with libretto written by Philippe Quinault and first performed at Versailles in 1683.

Produced by Friends of Kenwood
www.friendsofkenwood.org.uk