Rijksmuseum

Old Woman Sleeping

Date

c. 1636

Medium

paper

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Is this a man or a woman? In the early 18th century the sitter was taken for a dozing man, but later it was thought to be a woman. Rembrandt here takes up the 17th-century genre of pious old women who have fallen asleep while reading the Bible, still holding their reading spectacles.

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