# Reclining Female Nude, in Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt van Rijn made this in 1658, aged 52. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A nude woman reclines, her body emerging softly from deep shadow, in one of a group of etchings of the nude that Rembrandt made in 1658. He built up the darkness with dense etched hatching, drypoint and engraving, so that the figure glows against it.

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## The work

- Date: 1658
- Medium: Etching, drypoint, and engraving on Japanese paper; second of six states
- Dimensions: Plate: 3 3/16 × 6 1/4 in. (8.1 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 3 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (9.5 x 17.1 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.107.28
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Rembrandt van Rijn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/rembrandt-van-rijn), Dutch, 1606–1669

Rembrandt trained in Leiden and Amsterdam, settled in Amsterdam in the early 1630s and became the city’s most sought-after portraitist.

14 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Rembrandt van Rijn's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-rembrandt-van-rijn?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Dutch and Flemish Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-and-flemish-baroque?hang=749) (94 works)
- [17th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-netherlands?hang=749) (91 works)

## Get it

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