Woman at the Bath with a Hat beside Her is a 1658 ink by Rembrandt, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a woman sitting in a tub, holding a cloth over her shoulder. She’s naked except for a hat resting on the edge of the tub beside her. The background is dark and filled with quick, sketchy lines that make the scene feel intimate and slightly mysterious. The artist used a technique called drypoint to create fine, web-like textures in her skin and the fabric. This made the lines look almost like real brushstrokes, even though it’s just ink on paper. If you like this style, look up etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how artists make prints like this.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
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