I Am Rembrandt's Daughter (27 page)

Rembrandt and Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son in the Tavern
. 1635. Canvas, 161 × 131 cm. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

Hendrickje
. 1660. Canvas, 78.4.× 68.9 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Hendrickje Bathing
. 1655. Panel, 61.8.× 47 cm. National Gallery, London.

Officers and Guardsmen of the Amsterdam Civic Guard Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (1605–1655): “The Night Watch
.” 1642. Canvas, 363× 437 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The Jewish Bride
. 1667. Canvas, 121.5.× 166.5 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Portrait of Nicholas Bruyningh
(1629/30–1680). 1652. Canvas, 107.5 × 91.5 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Kassel.

The Return of the Prodigal Son
. Ca. 1668. Canvas, 262.× 205 cm. Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Copyright © 2007 by Lynn Cullen

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Cullen, Lynn.

I am Rembrandt’s daughter / by Lynn Cullen.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.

Summary: In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia’s life as the illegitimate child of
renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning
her father’s love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a weathy suitor.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59990-046-9 • ISBN-10: 1-59990-046-7 (hardcover)

[1. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669—
Fiction. 3. Painters—Fiction. 4. Plague—Fiction. 5. Poverty—Fiction. 6. Netherlands—
History—17th century—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.C8963Iaam 2007          [Fic]—dc22            2006028197

ISBN 978-1-59990-046-9 (e-book)