The Jewish Bride
Rembrandt
c. 1665–1669
The Jewish Bride is a painting by Rembrandt, painted around 1665‒1669.
The painting gained its current name in the early 19th century, when an Amsterdam art collector identified the subject as that of a Jewish father bestowing a necklace upon his daughter on her wedding day. This interpretation is no longer accepted, and the identity of the couple is uncertain. The ambiguity is heightened by the lack of anecdotal context, leaving only the central universal theme, that of a couple joined in love.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain · Text: Wikipedia (adapted), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Read more: rijksmuseum.nl
