Woman Sitting Half-Dressed beside a Stove
Medium
Etching, burring, and drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 8 15/16 × 7 5/16 in. (22.7 × 18.6 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 5/8 in. (23.4 × 19.3 cm) Frame: 21 × 16 in. (53.3 × 40.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number
18.70
Tags
Art Historical Context
In 1658, Rembrandt van Rijn the Dutch Baroque master renowned for his profound psychological depth and innovative printmaking, created *Woman Sitting Half-Dressed a Stove*. This etching, executed with burin and drypoint on a modest plate measuring about 9 by 7 inches, captures a half-nude woman in a cozy, dimly lit interior. The scene evokes everyday domesticity amid the harsh Dutch winter, her pose relaxed yet vulnerable as she warms herself by the fire. Rembrandt's late-period prints like this one showcase his experimental techniques: etching for fluid lines, drypoint for velvety burr textu...
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...