Met and Louvre Partner for Rembrandt and the Ancients, Opening November 2027

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan and the Musée du Louvre in Paris have co-organized Rembrandt and the Ancients, a major exhibition examining Greco-Roman and biblical influences in Rembrandt's work. Opening in November 2027, it marks the first comprehensive Rembrandt presentation at The Met in more than 20 years. The show will feature over 125 objects—paintings, drawings, and prints by the Dutch master, alongside historic reference materials—drawn from both institutions' collections and international loans. Several works will be shown in the United States for the first time, including Rembrandt's Oath of the Batavians (c. 1661), loaned by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition contextualizes Rembrandt's career within the Dutch Golden Age's antiquities collecting boom, when merchants and scholars such as the Reijnst brothers, Johannes Smetius, and Franciscus Junius amassed Greco-Roman and Renaissance artifacts, texts, and archaeological objects. The printing press's recent invention further spread classical, philosophical, and scientific texts in Dutch translations, shaping the artist's engagement with antiquity.