# The Meeting of Christ with Martha and Mary after the Death of Lazarus, in Hercules Seghers's contemporaries

Rembrandt van Rijn painted this in about 1662–65, aged about 56. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Scholars now consider this drawing a rare, late work by Rembrandt. Here, Christ meets with Martha and Mary after the death of their brother, Lazarus (John 11:30–36).

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1662–65
- Medium: reed pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache (in the heads of the kneeling figures)
- Dimensions: Sheet: 17.5 x 20.8 cm (6 7/8 x 8 3/16 in.); Secondary Support: 17.5 x 20.8 cm (6 7/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.116
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Rembrandt van Rijn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/rembrandt-van-rijn), Dutch, 1606–1669

Rembrandt trained in Leiden and Amsterdam, settled in Amsterdam in the early 1630s and became the city’s most sought-after portraitist.

14 works in the collection.

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