Portrait of a Woman
ArtistStudio of
Rembrandt van Rijn
(Dutch, 1606 – 1669)
Dateearly 1650s
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions47 1/2 x 39 1/8 x 2 in. (120.7 x 99.4 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN253
Rembrandt and his followers had a penchant for dressing up their subjects in historicizing costume. This (unidentified) sitter wears medieval dress and may be depicted in the guise of the heroine from a popular history play, Gijsbrecht van Aemstel (1637). The portrait shares a number of features with its presumed pendant now in the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK), including a shadowy background and starkly illuminated head, suggesting that both paintings were executed by the same artist.
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