Girl at a Window Dutch This is a sketch for

This is a sketch for an altarpiece by Conca

her eyes staring at the object of her affection

Birds nesting in the dovecote may have been kept for their flesh and eggs

men and women rejoice at David's triumphal entry

jade green - provide the chromatic structure of the painting

Girl at a Window Dutch This is a sketch forPainted 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