# Seated Female Nude, in 17th-century Netherlands

Rembrandt van Rijn painted this in 1660/62, aged about 54. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A nude woman sits on a low stool, her head bowed, drawn with a few rapid pen lines and broad sweeps of brown wash. Rembrandt drew from the model with his pupils in the studio, and he rejected the idealised bodies of classical art in favour of real, unglamorous flesh, a choice that troubled some later critics.

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## The work

- Date: 1660/62
- Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions: Primary/secondary supports: 21.2 × 17.5 cm (8 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.38
- 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

- [More by Rembrandt van Rijn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/rembrandt-van-rijn?hang=749) (14 works)
- [More Dutch and Flemish Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-and-flemish-baroque?hang=749) (94 works)
- [The 17th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17?hang=749) (266 works)

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