Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook
Medium
etching with drypoint and surface tone
Dimensions
sheet: 15.9 × 8.1 cm · platemark: 15.9 × 7.9 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
1997.4
Tags
male
About this artwork
Since the great majority of Rembrandt's works are portraits or depictions of biblical and mythological subjects, human figures are an important element of his oeuvre. During the course of a long career Rembrandt produced nine etchings of nudes, conducting a searching analysis of the feminine form. Rembrandt was an extremely innovative printmaker who experimented continuously. He understood that in etching he could obtain varied effects by controlling the inking and wiping of the plate and by pri...