# The Mennonite Minister Cornelis Claesz. Anslo in Conversation with his Wife, Aaltje \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The Mennonite Minister Cornelis Claesz. Anslo in Conversation with his Wife, Aaltje \(detail\) 1641 Oil on canvas Staatliche Museen, Berlin In Rembrandt's artful restaging of the domestic drama of marriage, Cornelis seizes the limelight, caught in a rhetorical gesture suitable to his role as leader of and preacher to Amsterdam's Mennonites. Far from forgotten, Aaltje listens into the night with critical attention as her husband expounds upon the Word, which he has found in those sacred books on the Anslo's richly carpeted working table. ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()