Minneapolis Institute of Art
Reclining Woman
Rembrandt van RijnLinkedCulture matchlcp-d6807541bb3d
- Date
- 1658
- Medium
- Etching, drypoint, and burin
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 66723
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
When Austrian print authority Adam Bartsch catalogued this reclining nude, he called it Négresse Couchée, or negress lying down. We now know that this is a misnomer; Rembrandt simply made a very dark plate. The model for several of his 1650s nude etchings was probably his common-law wife, Hendrickje Stoffels, who became his housekeeper in 1649. Absorbed in her thoughts, the figure in Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook (P.1, 304) seems to resist our gaze, and indeed Rembrandt seems not to have been paying much attention either. The chair back and tasseled cushion suggest that he sketched this in a studio, then transposed it to a leafy outdoor setting, but neglected to remove the studio details. Netherlands, Europe
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- Credit line
- The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
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