FABRITIUS, Carel
(b. 1622, Middenbeemster, d. 1654, Delft)

The Raising of Lazarus

c. 1642
Oil on canvas, 211 x 140 cm
Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw

Carel Fabritius is the Rembrandt disciple whose work is taken most seriously by present-day art historians. His early death in a famed gunpowder explosion in Delft cost the world the life of an important painter.