Young Girl Leaning on the Windowsill

Catalogue number: Bredius 368.

This painting of a young girl, Rembrandt's maid, exhibits a freedom from tension rare in Rembrandt's work. He portrays, in a moment of ease, fresh-faced girlhood without ulterior motives. This is Rembrandt, in mid-career, revealing himself at his most relaxed and most beguiling. The figure is as richly modelled in three dimensions as any in the artist's earlier work, but the handling is now broader and the treatment as a whole more atmospheric.