Girl at a Window Jean-Antoine Until 1880 given to Mola

Until 1880 given to Mola and then catalogued as Italian School

56 x 70cm) - and certain elements (the trees and distant mountain) certainly appear fine enough to be from Both's own hand

Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie

between 1638 and 1641

by Both himself

Girl at a Window Jean-Antoine Until 1880 given to MolaPainted in 1645 when Rembrandt was thirty nine, the painting has always been the subject of speculation and conflicting interpretations. A frequently quoted account by the French art theorist and early owner of the work, Roger de Piles (1635 1709), of passers by seeing it in a window and mistaking it for a real flesh and blood girl, is probably more of a general comment on Rembrandt's ability to seduce his viewers with an illusion than a strictly