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Three heads of women, one lightly etched
(c. 1637)
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 12.7 × 10.2 cm (sheet, trimmed to platemark)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bartsch 367; Hind 153 ii/ii; White & Boon 367 iii/iii; NHD 162 iii/iii
- Edition
- 3rd of 3 states
- Accession Number
- 1002-5
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1961
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Although these heads were modelled on Rembrandt’s wife, Saskia, the etching was not intended as a portrait. It emulates an informal drawn sheet of studies in its combination of three heads in varying stages of completion. The sketchy, informal nature of Rembrandt’s etched line and the spontaneity of his drawing style were highly prized by his contemporaries.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- black-and-white (colours) cross-hatching heads (representations) heads (representations) portrait heads studies (visual works) unfinished women (female humans)
- Movements
- Baroque