# Hendrickje Stoffels [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 69 cm ## Commentary Hendrickje Stoffels c. 1660 Oil on canvas, 78 x 69 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/database/glossary/note03.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=300,height=400'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">Catalogue number:</a> Bredius 118. Hendrickje Stoffels \(1626-1663\) was the daughter of an army sergeant. She advanced in Rembrandt's household from servant to mistress, presumed model, and common-law wife, as well as stepmother to the artist's son Titus \(1641-1668\) and mother of his daughter Cornelia \(1654-1685\). No indisputable image of her has been identified, although the present painting is considered a plausible example of the Hendrickje type. Hendrickje is thought to have modeled for three comparable paintings by Rembrandt, they are in the Musée du Louvre, <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/rembrand/24portra/095portr.html'\)" href="/html/r/rembrand/24portra/095portr.html">Paris,</a> in the National Gallery, <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/rembrand/24portra/085portr.html'\)" href="/html/r/rembrand/24portra/085portr.html">London,</a> and in the Staatliche Museen, <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/r/rembrand/24portra/100portr.html'\)" href="/html/r/rembrand/24portra/100portr.html">Berlin.</a> It appears likely that these images were intended to be understood as images of courtesans, comparable with those painted by Venetian artists, especially <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/palma/vecchio/port\_wom.html'\)" href="/html/p/palma/vecchio/port\_wom.html">Palma Vecchio.</a> ## Related artworks - [A black drummer and commander mounted on mules; riding in profile]() - [A child being taught to walk]() - [A cottage beneath trees]() - [A girl sleeping]() - [A Man Laughing]() - [A man making water]() - [A Peddler Selling Spectacles \(The Allegory of Sight\)]() - [A Polish Nobleman]() - [A Scholar]() - [A two-humped camel]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the back]() - [A woman in Zeeland costume, from the front]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()