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

Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume

1635
Oil on canvas, 124 x 98 cm
National Gallery, London

Catalogue number: Bredius 103.

Rembrandt painted this portrait in the year after their wedding. In showing Saskia as Flora, the Roman goddess of Spring, he reflected the contemporary fashion for Arcadian and rustic themes, which could be found in poems and plays as well as in painting.