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Seated Female Nude

  • Prints and Drawings

Date:

1660/62

Artist:

Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669

About this artwork

For Rembrandt van Rijn, elementary honesty of vision and sureness of line were far more important than the classical glorification of the nude. He focused on this subject only during certain phases of his career, and very few of the resulting studies, which he used to prepare biblical or mythological representations, survive today. This strong form is a late piece of work, and one of only four extant drawings of the female nude attributed to Rembrandt with certainty. Unlike the almost scientific realism of his earlier nudes, his late studies are less detailed and more painterly. He attained a maximum of expression with a minimum of means. Rendered with a swift treatment past brush and the blunt reed pen favored by the artist in his late years, this ample effigy projects a forceful presence. Her face is generalized, and her feelings are suggested through her wistful pose. Her simple shape and external immobility seem to increase the viewer's sense of her inner vitality. In Seated Female Nude, Rembrandt's penstrokes and brushwork are integrated with the utmost lightness and perfection; the pen stresses structural features, while the brush provides a transparent, atmospheric tone linking effigy and space.

Condition

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Rembrandt van Rijn

Title

Seated Female Nude

Origin

Kingdom of the netherlands

Engagement

1660–1662

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and dark-brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid newspaper, laid downward on cream laid card

Dimensions

212 × 175 mm (master/secondary supports)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1953.38

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