ABSTRACT
The chapter examines a single case of an interaction at a painting by Rembrandt that two visitors look at and inspect together. The analysis focuses on the practices that the two participants undertake at the “point-of-experience” andinvestigates where, when and how they actually encounter and experience and “taste” a work of art. It begins with the two participants’ arrival at the painting where they adopt particular standpoints in front of the piece, then explore how they examine some of the features of Rembrandt’s work before exploring how they jointly leave the painting. The data analysed in the chapter are part of a larger corpus of video-recordings that the authorhas collected in the Rembrandt exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
