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Reclining Woman, Rembrandt van Rijn — Reclining Woman, 1658
Rembrandt van Rijn
Etching, drypoint, and burin
The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916 P.1,305
Not on View
When Austrian print authority Adam Bartsch catalogued this reclining nude, he called it Négresse Couchée, or "negress lying down." We now know that this is a misnomer; Rembrandt simply made a very dark plate. The model for several of his 1650s nude etchings was probably his common-law wife, Hendrickje Stoffels, who became his housekeeper in 1649. Absorbed in her thoughts, the figure in Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook (P.1,304) seems to resist our gaze, and indeed Rembrandt seems not to have been paying much attention either. The chair back and tasseled cushion suggest that he sketched this in a studio, then transposed it to a leafy outdoor setting, but neglected to remove the studio details.

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Title: Reclining Woman
Dated: 1658
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Nationality: Dutch
Artist Life: 1606 - 1669
Role: Artist
Gallery: Not on View
Department: European Art
Dimension: 3 1/4 x 6 3/16 in. (8.2 x 15.7 cm) (sheet)
Credit: The William M. Ladd Collection Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
Accession Number: P.1,305
Medium: Etching, drypoint, and burin
Country: The Netherlands
Century: 17th century
Provenance: A. Buego, a black stamp verso (L. 82).
Rights: Public Domain
Classification: Prints
Catalogue Raisonne: Hind 299 iii/iii; B.205; Mz.142 iii/iii; Holl. 205 iii/iii; B-B. 58-E iii/iii
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