Girl at a Window Dutch Birds nesting in the dovecote

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

George Digby (1612-77) married Anne Russell

There are several preliminary drawings in the Louvre

This is a sketch for an altarpiece by Conca

Armida transports the sleeping Rinaldo in her flying chariot to the island of Fortuna in the middle of the ocean

Girl at a Window Dutch Birds nesting in the dovecotePainted 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