Albrecht Dürer made a famous engraving of the Prodigal Son amongst the pigs (1496), a popular subject in the Northern Renaissance, and Rembrandt depicted the story several times, although in at least one of his works, "The Prodigal Son in the Tavern", a portrait of himself "as" the Son, revelling with his wife, is like many artists' depictions, a way of dignifying a genre merry company or tavern scene. His late "Return of the Prodigal Son" (1662, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) is one of his most popular works.