Woman Reading

1634

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The artwork is an etching showing a woman depicted from the waist up, sitting and leaning slightly forward as she reads a book. Her face is in profile, with her hair covered by a patterned headscarf tied at the back. She wears a dark garment with a textured appearance, and a lighter, long-sleeved undergarment. Her right hand rests on the open pages of the book. The background is plain and unadorned. The artist's signature and the date "1634" are inscribed at the top.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 12.8 × 10.4 cm (5 1/16 × 4 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1968.4.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 345, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Barnard [died 1784], London (Lugt 1419)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1923

  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 137, state ii/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q65511751

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