2-889-620 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Owner of the Vineyard Paying his Labourers - painted by Rembrandt - from the Gallery of the late King of Holland, at the Hague, 1850. 'The subject, we need scarcely add, is the Parable of the Labourers, from St. Matthew, xx. The lord of the vineyard is seated at the table, and one of the first labourers murmurs at the payment, which is no more than that paid to the "eleventh hour" labourers. On the opposite side is seated a young man, who enters the payments; and in the distance is a group of labourers. This picture is one of Rembrandt's noblest compositions...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.