Portrait of Saskia as Flora by Rembrandt Harmens Van Rhine

Portrait of Saskia as Flora by Rembrandt Harmens Van Rhine

This charming portrait of the young Saskia was written that year when she married Rembrandt. The pensive, but undoubtedly happy face of the girl is fully consistent with the feelings of the bride. The headdresses and the wand entwined with flowers certainly point to Flora, the Roman goddess of spring.

The costume of the goddess is written with amazing skill, but the real greatness of Rembrandt’s talent is manifested in the expression of tenderness that the artist gave her face. A year later, he again wrote Saskia in the image of Flora – also a famous work, although an X-ray showed that at first he intended to portray her as a biblical Judith with Holofernes’s severed head, which she holds on her lap.

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