Woman bathing her Feet at a Brook

One of the most charming and attractive depictions of a female nude in Rembrandt’s printed oeuvre, this print shows a woman seated in a secluded natural setting, as she calmly and seemingly unobserved, bathes her feet in a brook. Lifetime impressions of this print are very rare. The plate however was strongly etched and continued to print so pleasingly and with great contrasts that later impressions such as the present one were frequently considered early, until paper research revealed that most were printed in the early 18th century.