Girl at a Window Dutch Possibly the action on 22

Possibly the action on 22 May 1681

Birds nesting in the dovecote may have been kept for their flesh and eggs

A painting in Helsinki's Sinebrychoff Museum

Rinaldo portrayed

Girl at a Window Dutch Possibly the action on 22Painted in 1645 when Rembrandt was thirty nine, the painting has always been the subject of speculation and conflicting interpretations. A frequently quoted account by the French art theorist and early owner of the work, Roger de Piles (1635 1709), of passers by seeing it in a window and mistaking it for a real flesh and blood girl, is probably more of a general comment on Rembrandt's ability to seduce his viewers with an illusion than a strictly