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The Pancake Woman
Also titled De koekenbakster
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1635
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 108 mm x width 144 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Rembrandt recorded this scene, observed on the street, with such conviction that you can put yourself in the shoes of each of the individuals. You sympathize with the eager boy digging deep for a coin, as well as the weary, hunched over pancake woman who has already worked a full day. The toddler, with his mouth full of pancake, is priceless.
