
Woman Seated on Bench and Three Sketches of Headsn.d.
School of Rembrandt van Rijn painted this (n.d.), aged about 19. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of pen and brown ink, with touches of brush and brown ink wash, on cream laid paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
School of Rembrandt van Rijn painted this (n.d.), aged about 19. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
School of Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606–1669
Dutch Golden Age
Seventeenth-century painting from the Dutch Republic: still lifes, interiors, portraits and flat, wide skies.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1922.1839
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site









