17 juillet 2021
“Hansken, Rembrandt’s Elephant,” at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam
Rembrandt (1606-1669), Adolescent Indian Elephant (Hansken), 1637, drawing in black chalk on paper. Albertina, Vienna. AMSTERDAM - She was famous across Europe: the Asian elephant Hansken. In the middle of the seventeenth century, she was the only living...