Portrait of Saskia sitting in an armchair, painted by Rembrandt, is among the 56-item collection borrowed from the Louvre Museum that are to go on show at an exhibition in Iran National Museum in downtown Tehran from March 5.
The painting is the portrait of Rembrandt’s wife Saskia and is drawn wholly in red lines. During her short life, Saskia served as the muse for many of Rembrandt’s works, ISNA reported.
Considered the greatest painter in European Art, Rembrandt (1606-69) was a Dutch painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age.
Named ‘Louvre in Tehran’, the Tehran exhibit will hold on to the artworks for three months.
As an outstanding cultural and diplomatic feat for both nations, the exhibition is the result of a memorandum of understanding signed between Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, and Louvre officials in 2016.
The collection mostly includes objects belonging to Sumer, Assyria, Hitti, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome civilizations as well as a collection of paintings, designs and lithography among which are the works of great European artists such as Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
