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Young Woman Seated by a Window (Saskia?)
Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1638
This drawing is often regarded as a ‘portrait’ of Saskia. If so, she consciously plays a role here. Wearing a simple cloth around her head and an apron, it seems as if she has come straight out of the kitchen. Saskia, however, was a mayor’s daughter and married to an artist full of social ambitions. She would thus never have walked around the house dressed like a kitchen maid.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-1930-51
- Dimensionsheight 175 mm x width 134 mm
- Physical characteristicspen and brown ink, with brown wash and opaque white, on paper toned with a light brown wash