Rembrandt makes the light sparkle on the diamonds and glimmer on the pearls.
Sometimes he adorns her with flowers and paints her as Flora.

Again, she is fastening a jewel in her hair, and Rembrandt himself stands by with a rope of pearls for her to don.

All these jewels and rich materials belonged to him.

He also bought antique marbles, pictures by Giorgione and Titian, engravings by Durer, and four volumes of Raphael's drawings, besides many other beautiful works of art.
These were splendid years, years in which he was valued by his contemporaries for the work he did for them, and years in which every picture he painted for himself gave him fresh experience.

A picture of the anatomy class of a famous physician had been among the first with which Rembrandt made a great public success.