Rembrandt. Landscape with the Good Samaritan

Exhibition of painting "Landscape with the Good Samaritan" of the great Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669).

"Landscape with the Good Samaritan" of 1638 is one of few known, preserved, single oil landscapes by Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as one of the most valuable works of European art in Polish collections. Artist reached to Christ's parable described in the Gospel of Luke (10;30-36):
A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him
and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he travelled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
In the foreground on the right, on the road by the edge of the forest, we can see the good Samaritan, placing a wounded half-naked man on a horse. They are being watched by a scared woman and man, embracing each other, who probably had witnessed the attack. The group of solid oaks in the foreground, below which we can see a hunter and a boy hunting birds, divides the painting into two parts. On the left, there is a sun-lit vast plain, closed with remote hills with an oriental town and Dutch windmills on the walls (most likely the Biblical Jericho). At the turn of the road behind the waterfall, we can identify two small figures of the priest and Levite, as well as the rich man's carriage with four white horses, that indifferently passed the man in need.