On the right, a detaill of Rembrandt's The Jewish Bride, a late masterpiece painted around 1667.

In the recent BBC4 Television program Schama on Rembrandt , Simon Schama calls this "the painting of love". It is a very beautiful and tender picture and another very good documentary from the BBC. Fittingly, for one of the greatest artists ever.

I was lucky enough to see this and many other pictures at the National Gallery a year or so ago, at their Late Works exhibition.