Rembrandt’s Ancient Obsessions Are Made Anew in Upcoming Met Exhibition
Co-organized with the Louvre, "Rembrandt and the Ancients" opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in November 2027 and will travel to Paris in 2028.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée du Louvre in Paris have collaborated to create an upcoming exhibition that delves into the Greco-Roman and biblical inspirations in Rembrandt's artwork. This marks the first major display of Rembrandt's pieces at The Met in over two decades. Titled "Rembrandt and the Ancients," the exhibit opens in November 2027, bringing Rembrandt's works to American audiences for the first time.
The exhibition will feature more than 125 objects sourced from both museums' collections and various international lenders. These include Rembrandt's paintings, drawings, and prints, alongside historical reference materials. During the Dutch Golden Age, a time of intense antiquities collecting, prominent merchants and collectors like the Reijnst brothers, Johannes Smetius, and Franciscus Junius amassed significant holdings of Greco-Roman and Renaissance-era artifacts, texts, and archaeological items.
The invention of the printing press further facilitated the widespread distribution of classical, philosophical, and scientific texts in Dutch.
One of the exhibit's highlights is "Oath of the Batavians" (c. 1661), which will be shown in the United States for the first time through a loan from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
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