Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Date:
ca. 1650
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown
Dimensions:
6 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (17.1 x 27.6 cm); vertical strip 6 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (17.2 x 3.2 cm) added by artist to the sheet at right.
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number:
29.100.939
Not on view
In his landscape drawings from the early 1650s, Rembrandt strove to create generalized views of the buildings in their settings, enlived by wonderfully atmospheric penwork, as seen here in the foliage of the trees. Rembrandt situated the cottage parallel to the picture plane and framed it symmetrically by adding a strip of paper to the right of the original sheet, on which he rounded off the tree branches, fence, and horizon. By doing so, he gave the composition a beautiful and imposing equilibrium of almost classical dimension.
Inscription: [in pen and brown ink at lower left]: WE [monogram of William Esdaile] (Lugt 2617)
Marking: Stamped lower left with the collector's mark of Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445). Verso: on the former backing stamped with the collectors' marks of Sir Francis Seymour Haden (Lugt 1227) and John Heywood Hawkins (Lugt 1472).
Jan Pietersz Zoomer; Sir Thomas Lawrence (British); William Esdaile (British); his sale, Christie's, London, June 17, 1840, lot 119 (£7 to Geddes); Andrew Geddes (British, Scottish); John Heywood Hawkins; his sale, Sotheby's, London (British), April 29, 1850, lot 1022 (£1 to Meyer); Sir Francis Seymour Haden (British); his sale, Sotheby's, London (British), June 15–19, 1891, lot 587 (£130 to Durand-Ruel); Galerie Durand-Ruel; John Postle Heseltine (British); H. O. Havemeyer; Donor: Louisine W. Havemeyer
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Rembrandt Harmensz van Ryn. Original drawings by Rembrandt second series. Edited by Friedrich Lippmann, vols. II, III, The Hague, 1890, cat. no. 143.
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Seymour Slive Drawings of Rembrandt. New York, 1965, cat. no. 148, ill.
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Robert C. Cafritz, David Rosand, Lawrence Gowing Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Washington, D.C., 1988–1989, fig. no. 123, pp. 132, 136, ill.
Artist: after Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam) Date: 17th centuryMedium: Etching and engravingAccession: 1994.610(53)On view in:Not on view
Artist: School of Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam) Date: 1620–69Medium: Pen and brown ink. Framing line in dark brown ink.Accession: 1975.131.161On view in:Not on view
Artist: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam) Date: 1637Medium: Etching with touches of drypointAccession: 1994.110.2On view in:Not on view
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