Although Rembrandt left this print unfinished, the subject is discernable--art making. Left in the exposed drypoint lines scratched into his bare copper plate is a nude woman posed on a platform as a man sits nearby and draws her. The background, however, is etched finely to completion. Why he abandoned this etching is unknown, but the fact that he sold impressions from the plate suggests that he recognized the curious potency of the fragmentary image. He may have been inspired in part by Anthony van Dyck's portrait etchings that freely juxtapose finished and unfinished passages.