And the belly, and the pubic hair the fat-raddled thighs of a woman of this age, you would not want to look at.

NEWYORKER: I.D.

Far less enchanting is a gallery that is chiefly devoted to paintings by the young Rembrandt including his dramatically shadowed, gustily proto-Romantic self-portrait, made at the age of twenty-two but is raddled with lesser art, ceramics, and furniture whose presence is justified by the fact that Rembrandt knew and liked their makers.

NEWYORKER: New Amsterdam