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REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn: Saskia lying in bed, and a nurse

🖼 Saskia lying in bed, and a nurse, c. 1635
Brown and black ink and wash
228 × 165 cm
Munich, Germany

A bedridden woman and attending nurse rendered in intimate chiaroscuro, with dramatic light isolating the sickbed. The tender domestic scene captures Rembrandt's wife Saskia during her fatal illness, transforming private suffering into profound emotional art.

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