Rembrandt van Rijn - Elsje Christiaens 1664
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Elsje Christiaens 1664
15x8cm pen and brown ink, brush and grayish brown wash on heavy brownish paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Elsje Christiaens (c. 1646 in Jutland – 1664 in Amsterdam) was a Danish girl who, aged 18, murdered her landlady with an axe in Amsterdam. She confessed and was executed. Her body was exhibited at the Volewijk, a field on the northern shore of the IJ, and Rembrandt van Rijn produced two drawings of it.