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Rembrandt did share his later years with Hendrickje Stoffels (c. 1615-63) who had become his live-in companion and she was even more featured as his subject than Saskia had been. The full-bodied nude of the 1654 Bathsheba has traditionally been identified with Hendrickje and accords well with her numerous portraits and studies (e.g., Woman Bathing, 1655). In 1654, shortly before she bore a daughter, Cornelia, Hendrickje was officially censured by the church council for living in sin.
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