REMBRANDT at 400

Museums around the world are celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn, a Dutch master. But Paris seems keen to outdo them all with a collaboration between four leading institutions. The Louvre is exhibiting 64 emblematic works, mostly drawings, which explore Rembrandt’s favoured themes: self-portraits, animals, humans, Biblical scenes and genre studies. The National Library is displaying 150 etchings, some acquired for the royal collection during the artist’s lifetime. Several of his most famous, such as “Ecce homo” and “The Three Trees”, are here. Another 180 or so etchings can be seen at the recently reopened Petit Palais, where the exhibition also remembers Eugène Dutuit, a 19th-century Rembrandt collector who bequeathed the works to the museum. Finally, the Institut Néerlandais has organised three related shows.