Flora

ca. 1654
Not on view
Unlike many of his ambitious contemporaries, Rembrandt never traveled to Italy. Nonetheless, Italian art had a profound effect on him. In this depiction of the Roman goddess of spring, he responded to the sixteenth-century Venetian master Titian in particular. Still, the somber coloration and rough paint handling make this work unmistakably Rembrandt’s own, and the goddess may be based in part on a portrait of his late wife, Saskia, who had been the inspiration for many of his paintings.

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Object Information
  • Title: Flora
  • Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
  • Date: ca. 1654
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 39 3/8 x 36 1/8 in. (100 x 91.8 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Archer M. Huntington, in memory of his father, Collis Potter Huntington, 1926
  • Object Number: 26.101.10
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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