Saskia Uylenburgh-RIJKSSTUDIO

Rembrandt used this room as a living room and bedroom. In 17th-century Holland it was customary to live and sleep in the same room. There were no bedrooms as we know them at that time. Rembrandt slept with Saskia in a box bed near the door. We know from his drawings what this part of the room looked like.

TITIA UYLENBURGH & REMBRANDT & LACHRIMAE [FLOW MY TEARS]

(Stort trané uyt, schreyt luyde weét en treurt!)

[Stort tranen uit schreit luid weent en treurt / Och het dunkt mij dat mijn hart barst en scheurt]

Rembrandt van Rijn
Interior with Saskia in Bed
c. 1640–42
Pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and some additions in red and black chalk

This painterly drawing is thought to represent a room in Rembrandt's home with his ailing wife in bed and a maid sewing beside her. Rembrandt laid out the scene with his characteristically rapid penwork, then applied unusually extensive amounts of brown and gray wash to color the composition. The dry application of ink on the bed leaves bits of the paper exposed, creating the illusion of light dappling across the surfaces of the furniture.

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RIJKSSTUDIO - SASKIA UYLENBURGH - ENLARGE WITH MUSIC - OPTIMIZED FOR IPAD - CLICK ON THE PAINTING TO ENLARGE

MUSICK’S MONUMENT AUDIO RECORDINGS

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1638

JOHN DOWLAND - I saw my lady weep

Paula Bär-Giese & Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1633

GIULIO CACCINI - AMARILLI

Paula Bär-Giese soprano & virginal

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1636-1640

JOHN DOWLAND - Come again

Paula Bär-Giese & Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1634

JOHN DOWLAND - If my complaints

Paula Bär-Giese & Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1636

JOSQUIN - Mille regrets

Paula Bär-Giese & Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1635-1639

The woods so wild

Paula Bär-Giese & Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1636

Lieffde int secreet

Paula Bär-Giese & Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar: navolger - follower

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1690

JOHN DOWLAND - LACHRIMAE

Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1635-1636

Prealudium H. Pyso

Hans Meijer - lute

In the Leiden archives of 1610-1620 a lutenist Hermanus Pijs or Piso is mentioned. On 14 October 1617 he was registered as a lutenist in the Leiden ‘Album studiosorum’. We know of only one lute piece by him. The same Pijs was probably the man who was organist at the Hoogland Church in Leiden from 1624 until his death in 1645.

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

(Leiden 15-jul-1606 - Amsterdam 8-okt-1669)

AMSTERDAM 1634

JOHN DOWLAND - Can she excuse my wrongs

Paula Bär-Giese & Hans Meijer luit

Musick’s Monument recording

RIJKSSTUDIO

Kunstenaar / tekenaar:

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn