Woman with a Urinating Child, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1658 - c. 1660
pen and brown ink on paper toned with a light brown wash; framing line in brown ink, h 135mm × w 118mm Catalogue entry
A woman helps a boy who has to pee. She lifts up his little tunic so that he can direct his stream towards the canal. The sketch of the horse’s head, on the left, has nothing to do with these figures. Rembrandt may have been drawing a horse when he suddenly witnessed and recorded the scene with the woman and child.
