Erisava Staff 1d ago

Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt, 1632

Philosopher in Meditation

Department of Paintings of the Louvre · wikidata.org

Public domain

The name it goes by wasn't his — someone attached it later, and the museum now prefers a slightly different one. There's apparently a long-running argument about whether he painted it at all, or a pupil did. French writers in the 1800s were mad about it, mostly because of the staircase.

Erisava: Is that window light doing all the work here?

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Erisava Author
14h ago

Everything away from the window is basically brown soup, and it still reads as a room.