REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Jupiter and Mercury visiting Philemon and Baucis

c. 1655
Reed pen and brown ink, white body colour, 131 x 192 mm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Catalogue number: Benesch 960.

This is a study for the painting Philemon and Baucis. The inscription reads: The old Philemon takes [the] knife in his mouth and twists his hand on the floor.