Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver

Judas Repentant, Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver is a painting by Rembrandt, now in Mulgrave Castle in Lythe, North Yorkshire.[1] It depicts the story of Matthew 27:3: "Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders".

Judas Returning the Thirty Silver Pieces (Rembrandt 1629)

Made in 1629 while he was working in Leiden, the painting is one of Rembrandt's earliest works. About 1630 Constantijn Huygens wrote an analysis of the figure of Judas in it, arguing that Rembrandt had surpassed the painters from Antiquity, as well as the great sixteenth-century Italian artists when it came to the representation of emotions expressed by figures that act in a history painting.

References

van de Wetering, Ernst (2000). Rembrandt: The Painter at Work. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 268, note 8. ISBN 0-520-22668-2.

Literature

David Bomford, Art in the making - Rembrandt, Catalogue, The National Gallery (London 2006), p. 54-61.

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[1] van de Wetering, Ernst (2000). Rembrandt: The Painter at Work. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 268, note 8. ISBN 0-520-22668-2.