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Detail of Flora by Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019

Detail of Flora by Rembrandt in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
Flora, ca. 1654


Object Details

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

Accession Number: 26.101.10


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 the artist’s deceased wife, Saskia, who had been the muse and inspiration for many of his paintings.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437398

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