# The Kitchen Maid [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 63 cm ## Commentary <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 377. This painting is a good example Rembrandt's transition from fine brushwork to a coarser manner of painting. Her red jacket and white blouse were rendered with broad, accurate brushstrokes. The painting has always been regarded as one of the most representative examples of Rembrandt's work from the 1650s. In terms of subject matter, the painting can be related to a series of works executed during the period 1645-55, all of them on the borderline between portrait and genre. The closest parallel is the Young Girl Leaning on the Windowsill in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. A particular individual, probably a servant girl in the painter's household, may have served as the model, given the striking portrait-like character of the painting. ## 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]()