REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

Virgin of Sorrows

1661
Oil on canvas, 107 x 81 cm
Musée Départemental d'Art Ancien et Contemporain, Épinal

Catalogue number: Bredius 397.

This painting of a woman with her hand on her heart is considered a Virgin of Sorrows with the usual attributes of that figure. In her bearing, which seems to express barely endurable pain, she resembles the Madonnas Rembrandt painted and drew in the 1630s.