Woman with the Arrow

• Woman with the Arrow
• Woman with the arrow

Naakte vrouw, gezeten op een bed met een gordijnkoord in haar hand

RP-P-OB-433

• collector's mark: Lugt 240
• signature and date: ‘Rembrandt f 1661’

Modelling with raised arms is tiring. To provide this woman with some relief, she most likely held onto a cord. Rembrandt set her in a narrative context by transforming the cord into an arrow and introducing the face of a man in the darkness at the left. Perhaps she represents Venus who takes away Cupid’s arrow; the scene has also been interpreted as Cleopatra with her lover.

Bartsch 202-3(3)

• print maker: Rembrandt van Rijn (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: after design of Rembrandt van Rijn

1661

ets, droge naald en burijn, gedrukt met lichte plaattoon

height 204 mm x width 123 mm

Public domain

• Bartsch 202-3(3)
• Bartsch 203-3(3)
• New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish (Rembrandt text) 313-3(3)

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200125429