REMBRANDT Cupid Resting Etching & Drypoint Print, no apparent inscriptions, subject show Cupid lounging with his bow and arrows at either side of him. Window measures approx 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in., frame measures approx 7 x 8 in., gold toned wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. Rembrandt, in full Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt originally spelled Rembrant, (born July 15, 1606, Leiden, Netherlands—died October 4, 1669, Amsterdam), Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker, one of the greatest storytellers in the history of art, possessing an exceptional ability to render people in their various moods and dramatic guises. Rembrandt is also known as a painter of light and shade and as an artist who favoured an uncompromising realism that would lead some critics to claim that he preferred ugliness to beauty. Early in his career and for some time, Rembrandt painted mainly portraits. Although he continued to paint—and etch and, occasionally, draw—portraits throughout his