Saint Matthew and the Angel (c. 1661) is an oil painting on canvas by the Dutch master Rembrandt.

It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Louvre.

He sits behind a table with a book open before him, and gazes thoughtfully into the distance.

An angel with rich fair curls at the back to the left lays his right hand on the evangelist's right shoulder and speaks to him.

[1]Rembrandt was influenced in his arrangement with the angel acting as an assistant by an earlier work by Frans Hals: