Girl at a Window Jean-Antoine courtesan and historical figure

courtesan and historical figure

family member

between 1638 and 1641

56 x 70cm) - and certain elements (the trees and distant mountain) certainly appear fine enough to be from Both's own hand

The original is in the Niedersächsische Landesgalerie

Girl at a Window Jean-Antoine courtesan and historical figurePainted in 1645 when Rembrandt was thirty nine, the painting has always been the subject of speculation and conflicting interpretations. A frequently quoted account by the French art theorist and early owner of the work, Roger de Piles (1635 1709), of passers by seeing it in a window and mistaking it for a real flesh and blood girl, is probably more of a general comment on Rembrandt's ability to seduce his viewers with an illusion than a strictly