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Young Woman at an Open Half-Door
Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn (Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669))
1645
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 102.5 × 85.1 cm (40 3/8 × 33 1/2 in.); Framed: 121.6 × 104.4 × 5.7 cm (47 7/8 × 41 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This young woman, with her sidelong glance and the ambiguous lift at the corner of her mouth, exemplifies the playful nature of Rembrandt van Rijn’s character studies, called tronies, as well as his use of doorways and windows as clever framing devices. However, the overall flatness of this composition argues against Rembrandt’s authorship. It may have been created by a member of his prolific workshop and then endorsed as a studio product with the artist’s signature and date.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
