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Portrait of Jaapgen Caerlsdr
Also titled Portret van Jaapgen Caerlsdr
1635
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 19.9 cm x width 16.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Henry M. Holterman Family
- 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
Jaapgen Caerlsdr is 70 years old in this portrait. Hailing from a distinguished lineage, she was the daughter of a Leiden glazier. She probably sat for Rembrandt around 27 March 1635, when she served as a witness at her granddaughter’s baptism in Amsterdam. The diagonal placement of her upper body and the subtle use of shadows, for instance in the fold of the cap, contribute to her lifelike, almost three-dimensional appearance.
