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

Portrait of Saskia with a Flower

1641
Oil on wood, 99 x 83
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Catalogue number: Bredius 108.

The painting is interpreted as a representation of Flora, the goddes of flowers. It was influenced by the Italian Renaissance art, namely by the Flora of Tiziano which was in a collection of Amsterdam that time (presently it is in the Uffizi Gallery).




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