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REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn: Hendrickje Stoffels

🖼 Hendrickje Stoffels, c. 1660
Oil on canvas
78 × 69 cm
New York, USA

A woman in golden light wears an exotic costume with pearl earrings, rendered with loose brushwork and warm ochre tones. Rembrandt's intimate portrait of his companion celebrates ordinary beauty with extraordinary tenderness, defying 17th-century portraiture conventions.

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