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Drawing and Watercolor

Seated Female Nude

Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669. 1660/62. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Art Institute of Chicago.

Seated Female NudeRembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669 · 1660/62The Art Institute of Chicago · CC0
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Brown-tone drawing of a nude woman seated on a small stool, looking downward.

Drawing and Watercolor / Source record

Seated Female Nude

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Maker
Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669
Date
1660/62
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Collection
The Art Institute of Chicago
Accession
1953.38
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Rights
Public domain · CC0

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Drawing and WatercolorObject type

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Drawing and Watercolor

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PaperMaterial

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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card; paper (fiber product); brown ink; colored ink; ink; brown wash; wash; laid paper” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card; paper (fiber product); brown ink; colored ink; ink; brown wash; wash; laid paper

Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1

InkMaterial

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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card; paper (fiber product); brown ink; colored ink; ink; brown wash; wash; laid paper” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card; paper (fiber product); brown ink; colored ink; ink; brown wash; wash; laid paper

Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1

WatercolourTechnique

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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card; painting (image making); drawing (image-making)” in its medium/techniques field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with subtractive highlights (scraping) and touches of opaque white watercolor corrections, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card; painting (image making); drawing (image-making)

Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1

Human-figureSubject

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The Art Institute of Chicago supplies “women” in its subjects field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.

women

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