Elsje Christiaens
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elsje Christiaens (c.ā1646 in Jutland ā 1664 in Amsterdam) was a Danish girl who, aged 18, murdered her landlady with an axe in Amsterdam. She confessed and was executed. Her body was exhibited at the Volewijk, a field on the northern shore of the IJ, and Rembrandt van Rijn produced two drawings of it.[1]