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Portrait of a Woman

1633
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 616

The sitter’s identity is unknown, as in many Rembrandt portraits of the 1630s. During that decade in Amsterdam the painter was pressed with many portrait commissions, which he handled with the occasional use of assistants and different degrees of quality in his own work. Some critics detect the hand of a collaborator in this painting, but the strong modeling of the face, delicate drawing of the cap, and immediacy of the expression are typical of Rembrandt himself.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Portrait of a Woman
  • Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
  • Date: 1633
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: Oval, 26 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (67.9 x 50.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
  • Object Number: 14.40.625
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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