Rembrandt

“Because of the great zeal and devotion which I experienced in executing well the two pictures which His Highness commissioned me to make”

“Rembrandt emphasizes here the urge for a place with bright light, necessary to view his painting well. Not certain is which painting by Rembrandt is meant here.”

“My [dear] Sir: Let me first offer my kind regards. I agree that I should come soon to see how the picture accords with the rest. As regards the price, I certainly deserve 200 pounds for it, but shall be content with whatever His Excellency pays me. And if you, Sir, do not deem it presumptuous, I shall not neglect to requite the favor. Your humble and devoted servant Rembrandt”

“I cannot refrain from presenting you, [dear] Sir, my latest work.”

“..that I am very diligently engaged in proficiently completing the three Passion paintings which his Excellency has personally commissioned me [to do]: an Entombment [6] , a Resurrection, and an Ascension of Christ.. .Of the above three, one has been completed, namely Christ's Ascension to Heaven, and the other two are more than half”

“version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Rembrandt, in Nederlands): Een vroom gemoet / Acht eer voor goet”

“A pious mind / Places honor above wealth”

“this short quote is written at the bottom in a portrait”

“Quote in original Dutch (citaat van Rembrandt in Nederlands): Dit is naer mijn huijsvrou geconterfeit do si 21 jaer oud was, den derden dach als wij getroudt waeren, den 8 junijus 1633 Rembrandt's inscription under a drawing of his wife Saskia, 1633; as cited in Rembrandt: The Painter at Work , by Ernst van de Wetering , Amsterdam University Press, 1997, p. 47”

“This is portrayed after my wife when she was 21 years old, the third day after we were betrothed, on the 8th of June 1633 [3]”