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Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces. Each episode of Moving Pictures is devoted to a single artwork – and you’re invited to look as well as listen, by following a link to a high-resolution image made by Google Arts & Culture. Zoom in and you can see the pores of the canvas, the sweep of individual brushstrokes, the shimmer of pointillist dots.

A young woman paddles in a stream, staring down with an enigmatic smile as the cool water plays about her legs. At first glance, it's a simple scene - and yet this small painting by Rembrandt mesmerises with its tender sensuality. Is it a portrait of his partner, Hendrickje? Or a biblical picture made for sale by an artist in serious financial difficulties? Take a closer look at Rembrandt's daringly intimate A Woman Bathing in a Stream and discover how he 'sculpts in paint'.

To see the high-resolution image of the painting made by Google Arts & Culture, visit www.bbc.co.uk/movingpictures. Scroll down and follow the link to explore A Woman Bathing in a Stream by Rembrandt.

Interviewees: Helen Hillyard, Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Jonathan Bikker, Bart Cornelis, Pieter Roelofs.

Producer and presenter: Cathy FitzGerald

Executive producer: Sarah Cuddon
Mix engineer: Mike Woolley
Art history consultant: Leah Kharibian

A White Stiletto production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4

NG54: Rembrandt, A Woman bathing in a Stream (Hendrickje Stoffels?), 1654. Oil on wood, 61.8 × 47 cm, © The National Gallery, London