Portrait of Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg

Rembrandt painted Haesje Jacobsdr van Cleyburg early in his Amsterdam career, when his penetrating realism and mastery of light were winning him the city’s most prosperous sitters. Van Cleyburg was noted in her own right as the founder of an Amsterdam almshouse for the elderly, a charitable legacy that kept her memory alive long after her death. The work stands among the finest and most celebrated portraits of Rembrandt’s early Amsterdam years.