This room contains a unique collection of paintings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669). The Hermitage’s Rembrandt collection includes 23 works, representing both the artist’s early and late periods (among them Flora, The Descent from the Cross, The Sacrifice of Abraham, Danaë, David and Jonathan, The Holy Family, Portrait of an Old Man in Red and The Return of the Prodigal Son).