Amsterdam Through the Eyes of Rembrandt Set of 12 Postcards

Although Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) and his work are now seen as quintessentially Dutch, in his own time, the very definition of ‘Dutch’ identity was still being shaped. This set of postcards was produced to complement the exhibition Rembrandt's Lions: Art and Exile in the Dutch Republic. The exhibition brings together, for the first time, a remarkable group of drawings, etchings, and paintings to highlight the often overlooked but formative presence of migrants, immigrants, exiles, and refugees in Rembrandt’s world and work. It also foregrounds stories of diaspora that figure prominently in many of his etchings, newly envisioning the impact of migration on seventeenth-century life around the world.

The best impressions from the Morgan’s collection of celebrated, but rarely exhibited, etchings by Rembrandt are presented alongside selected loans to create juxtapositions and unities between artworks that are seldom seen together.