The Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1633 by Rembrandt van Rijn

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1633 by Rembrandt van Rijn
Year: 1633 | Medium: Oil on canvas | Location: Unknown

Yet another work by famous oil painting artist and Dutch Golden Age master Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was created in 1633. This work shows Christ’s disciples on a fishing boat out at sea, struggling in a storm and having lost control of their vessel. One disciple is vomiting overboard, and one, who stares directly at the viewer while holding on to his cap, is a self-portrait of Rembrandt himself. Only Christ is shown as having kept his sense of calmness.

The scene is taken from a biblical story of Christ calming the storm, from the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark. Known as Rembrandt’s sole seascape, The Storm at the Sea of Galilee last hung at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston but was one of 13 works stolen from the museum in 1990. Its whereabouts today remain unknown.