3-102-295 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Boy Reading (Titus)', c1656-1657, (1967). Alternative title: Titus van Rijn (?), the Artist's Son, Reading. Born in 1641, Titus was the only one of Rembrandt's four children by his first wife, Saskia, to reach adulthood. He died in 1668, a year before his father, whose affairs he had managed. The picture is not a portrait in the narrow sense of the word; the real theme is the intimate situation of reading. The lighting is used as a means of intensifying the young man's expression. Painting in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. From "Rembrandt" by Ludwig Münz and Bob Haak, [Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1967]