Which Rembrandt painting is housed at New York’s Frick Collection?
Answer
The Polish Rider
89 Rembrandt Trivia Questions with Answers
89 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which Rembrandt painting depicts a dramatically lit slaughtered ox hanging in a butcher’s shop?
Answer
The Slaughtered Ox
Which Rembrandt painting shows a nocturnal landscape with a storm at sea?
Answer
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
What is Rembrandt’s best-known group portrait of Amsterdam’s civic militia called?
Answer
The Night Watch
Which Rembrandt etching is also known as Christ Healing the Sick?
Answer
The Hundred Guilder Print
Which Rembrandt painting is displayed in Stockholm’s Nationalmuseum after being cut from a larger work?
Answer
The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
Which Rembrandt painting depicts a woman bathing in a stream while holding her clothing?
Answer
A Woman Bathing in a Stream
Which museum houses Rembrandt’s painting Aristotle with a Bust of Homer?
Answer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
At which university did Rembrandt van Rijn briefly enroll as a young man?
Answer
Leiden University
Which Rembrandt painting was stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990?
Answer
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
What is the formal title of Rembrandt’s painting commonly called The Night Watch?
Answer
Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq
What was the name of Rembrandt’s son who became a painter?
Answer
Titus van Rijn
Which Rembrandt painting portrays the biblical figure Susanna being observed while bathing?
Answer
Susanna at the Bath
Which Rembrandt painting is also known as Bathsheba at Her Bath?
Answer
Bathsheba with King David’s Letter
Which Rembrandt painting depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah mourning Jerusalem?
Answer
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
What was Rembrandt’s first name in the signature he adopted in 1633?
Answer
Rembrandt
Which Rembrandt painting depicts Lucretia holding a dagger?
Answer
Lucretia
On what date did Rembrandt van Rijn die?
Answer
4 October 1669
Which Rembrandt portrait shows the Amsterdam merchant Nicolaes Ruts wearing a fur-trimmed coat?
Answer
Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts
What is the title of Rembrandt’s first known painting, dated 1625?
Answer
The Stoning of Saint Stephen
Which Rembrandt painting is also called The Syndics?
Answer
The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild
Which Rembrandt painting shows a large group of surgeons gathered around Dr. Tulp?
Answer
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Which Rembrandt painting is commonly called The Jewish Bride?
Answer
Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebekah
Which Rembrandt painting depicts a lavish feast interrupted by mysterious writing on a wall?
Answer
Belshazzar’s Feast
What was Rembrandt van Rijn’s full given name?
Answer
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Which Rembrandt painting depicts the mythological princess Andromeda chained to rocks?
Answer
Andromeda Chained to the Rocks
In what year did Rembrandt declare bankruptcy?
Answer
1656
What nickname is commonly given to Rembrandt’s etching of Christ preaching to a crowd?
Answer
The Hundred Guilder Print
Who was Rembrandt’s teacher in Leiden before he moved to Amsterdam?
Answer
Jacob van Swanenburg
Which Rembrandt painting is known as The Blinding of Samson?
Answer
The Blinding of Samson
Which Rembrandt print is known as The Three Crosses?
Answer
The Three Crosses
What was the title of Rembrandt’s 1653 etching showing three trees?
Answer
The Three Trees
Which Rembrandt painting depicts a man in oriental dress identified as the biblical figure Ahasuerus?
Answer
Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther
Which Rembrandt painting shows the artist’s wife Saskia as the Roman goddess Flora?
Answer
Saskia as Flora
Who taught Rembrandt in Amsterdam before Rembrandt established his own workshop?
Answer
Pieter Lastman
Which Amsterdam church was Rembrandt’s burial place in 1669?
Answer
Westerkerk
What was the name of Rembrandt’s long-term partner after Saskia van Uylenburgh died?
Answer
Hendrickje Stoffels
Which London museum displays Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait with Two Circles?
Answer
Kenwood House