Hendrickje Stoffels (1626–1663)
mid-1650s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 7/8 x 27 1/8 in. (78.4 x 68.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Archer M. Huntington, in memory of his father, Collis Potter Huntington, 1926
Accession Number
26.101.9
Tags
About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...