Rembrandt Installed at the Jardin des

Installed at the Jardin des Plantes

Pierpont Morgan’s Library—the historic heart of the Morgan Library & Museum

this incredible novelty book features special effects like a Victorian peep show

and allusions to the ‘operatic’ quality of traditional natural history

Rembrandt Installed at the Jardin desRembrandt van Rijn (16061669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre encompasses religious, historical, and secular scenes, as well as one of the most extraordinary series of portraits and self portraits in history. Rembrandts work foregrounds texture, light, and acute observation. Like sudden, startling apparitions in a shadowy