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Etching of a sleeping nude woman on rumpled cloth, with a bearded older man wearing a wreath leaning over her.

Jupiter and Antiope: The Larger Plate

An etching showing a nude woman asleep on a rumpled cloth, her body stretched across the sheet, while a bearded older man with a wreath in his hair leans in beside her. Dense hatching and drypoint burr create deep shadows against the pale paper, and a signature and date appear at the lower edge.

Artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
Date
1659
Medium
Etching, drypoint, and burin on off-white laid paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1170 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1659).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection

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