Пейзаж с добрым самаритянином

Rembrandt painted very few pure landscapes — only about six in oil survive — and this is among the finest. In 1638 he was in his early thirties, newly prosperous in Amsterdam and better known for portraits and biblical drama than for scenery. Here he combines both. A storm is clearing, sunlight breaking through heavy cloud over a wild, half-imagined countryside, and almost lost in it is the small human moment that gives the picture its name: the Good Samaritan lifting the wounded traveller onto a horse. The weather does the storytelling, that turbulent clearing sky mirroring the mercy beneath it. It is one of only three paintings by Rembrandt in Polish collections, kept today in Kraków.