{{Short description|Painting by Rembrandt (c. 1665–1669)}} {{expand Dutch|date=January 2023|topic=cult}} {{Infobox Artwork | image_file = Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - Portret van een paar als oudtestamentische figuren, genaamd 'Het Joodse bruidje' - Google Art Project.jpg | backcolor = | painting_alignment = | image_size = 300px | title = The Jewish Bride | artist = Rembrandt | year = {{circa|1665–1669}} | medium = Oil on canvas | height_metric = 121.5 | width_metric = 166.5 | height_imperial = | width_imperial = | metric_unit = cm | imperial_unit = in | city = Amsterdam | museum = Rijksmuseum | movement = Baroque painting, Dutch Golden Age painting }} '''''The Jewish Bride''''' ({{langx|nl|Het Joodse bruidje}}) is a painting by Rembrandt, painted around 1665‒1669.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/rembrandt-van-rijn/objects#/SK-C-216,2 |title=Isaac and Rebecca, Known as 'The Jewish Bride' – Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Museum for Art and History |publisher=Rijksmuseum.nl |access-date=2019-05-23}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-C-216?page=1&lang=en&context_space=&context_id= |title=The Jewish Bride – Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Museum for Art and History |publisher=Rijksmuseum.nl |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-date=2012-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211141711/http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-C-216?page=1&lang=en&context_space=&context_id= |url-status=dead }}</ref> The ambiguity is heightened by the lack of anecdotal context, leaving only the central universal theme, that of a couple joined in love.<ref>Bull, Duncan, et al., ''Rembrandt-Caravaggio'', p. 131. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2006.</ref> Speculative suggestions as to the couple's identity have ranged from Rembrandt's son Titus and his bride, or Amsterdam poet Miguel de Barrios and his wife. Also considered are several couples from the Old Testament, including Abraham and Sarah, Boaz and Ruth, or Isaac and Rebekah, which is supported by a drawing by the artist several years prior.<ref>Bull, p. 131.</ref>
While technical evidence suggests that Rembrandt initially envisioned a larger and more elaborate composition, the placement of his signature at lower left indicates that its current dimensions are not significantly different from those at the time of its completion.<ref>Bull, p. 132.</ref> According to Rembrandt biographer Christopher White, the completed composition is "one of the greatest expressions of the tender fusion of spiritual and physical love in the history of painting."<ref>White, Christopher, ''Rembrandt'', p. 202. London, 1984.</ref>
The painting is in the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
<gallery mode=packed f > File:Rembrandt - The Jewish Bride (detail) - WGA19160.jpg|Detail of the hands File:Rembrandt Isaac and Rebecca.jpg|Drawing of Isaac and Rebeccah spied upon by Abimelech, by Rembrandt, c. 1662 File:Dziewczyna w ramie obrazu 1.jpg|Other ''Jewish Bride'', by Rembrandt, 1641 </gallery>
==See also== * List of paintings by Rembrandt * ''100 Great Paintings'', 1980 BBC series
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==Further reading== * {{cite book| last= Bikker |first= Jonathan |title=The Jewish Bride |year=2013 |publisher=Rijksmuseum |location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-94-91714-05-4 }}
==External links== {{Commonscat}} *''[http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-C-216?lang=en The Jewish Bride] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211141654/http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-C-216?lang=en |date=2012-02-11 }}'' at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. * [https://rkd.nl/explore/images/3068 Portrait of a couple as Isaac and Rebeccah, known as ''The Jewish Bride''] in the RKDimages database
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