Old Woman Sleeping

• Old Woman Sleeping
• Old woman sleeping

RP-P-1961-1193

mark: Lugt 2228

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.

New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 160-1(1)

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn
• after own design by: after design of Rembrandt van Rijn

c. 1636

ets

height 69 mm x width 52 mm

Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

bequest 1961

Public domain

• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 160-1(1)
• Hollstein Dutch 350-1(1)
• Bartsch 350-1(1)

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