Rijksmuseum

Het ledikant

Date

1646

Medium

paper

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Salacious depictions were hardly unknown in the 17th century, but few were as explicit as this print. For a long time, the etching was viewed with disgust, and from the 19th century onwards, some people simply could not accept that Rembrandt had made it. Its experimental character is evident from a detail: the woman has two left arms. Rembrandt never tried to remove this extra arm.

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