Portrait of a Woman
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch
Painting · oil on wood
Portrait of a Woman, 1635 or earlier. Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669), and Studio. Oil on wood; framed: 97.8 x 83.8 x 6.4 cm (38 1/2 x 33 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 77.5 x 64.8 cm (30 1/2 x 25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944.90
Descent of Portrait of a Woman
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.