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

Young Girl Wearing a Gold-trimmed Cloak

1632
Oil on panel, oval, 59 x 44 cm
The Leiden Collection, New York

Catalogue number: Bredius 89.

This work belongs to a group of paintings all featuring the same model whose identity is not known. Notwithstanding the individual facial features of the model, the painting is probably not a portrait, but a tronie. Tronies are representations of particular character types, such as soldiers, orientals, old men or young women, which were often based on actual models, but did not serve o portrait function.