The Pancake Woman (1635): Art, History and Details
The Pancake Woman at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1635, Etching. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
The Pancake Woman (1635) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The Pancake Woman exemplifies Rembrandt's observation of daily life. The scene includes closely observed details, such as the child on the right who gazes thoughtfully into the frying pan and the toddler in the foreground holding his pancake out of reach of a hungry dog who chases him.
Object facts
- Title: The Pancake Woman
- Date: 1635
- Creator attribution: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)
- Culture: Netherlands
- Type: Print
- Technique: Etching
- Dimensions: Sheet: 10.1 x 8 cm (4 x 3 1/8 in.)
- Collection: PR - Etching
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 2016.41
Collection credit
Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Jane Glaubinger
Further reading listed by the museum
- Wehn, James. “Acquisition Highlights 2016: Prints.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 57, no. 2 (March/April 2017): 22-23.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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