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

Flora

c. 1654
Oil on canvas, 100 x 92 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Catalogue number: Bredius 114.

The figure on this painting is an ideal type, although the facial features recall Rembrandt's wife, Saskia, who died in 1642. It is often observed that in this picture Rembrandt emulates Titian's Flora, which until 1641 was in Amsterdam for a few years.

The painting has suffered from linings and abrasion.