Flora
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
ca. 1654 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
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.
- Artist
- Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
- Date
- ca. 1654
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Gift of Archer M. Huntington, in memory of his father, Collis Potter Huntington, 1926
