Cottages and Barn beside a Road
c. 1650
Rembrandt van Rijn
Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 10.5 x 17.9 cm (4 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.9096
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Catalogue Raisonné
Benesch 1973, no. 1238
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jan Piertersz Zoomer, Amsterdam (L.1511). William Esdaile (L.2617), Lessing J. Rosenwald (L.Supp.1760b); gift 1943 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Rembrandt Etchings: Lent by Mr. Lessing J. Rosenwald, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1930.
Prints and Drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) from the Collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1930
1935
Master Drawings: selected from the museums and private collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Gallery, NY, 1935, no. 55, repro.
1936
Rembrandt and his Circle, Worcester Art Museum, MA, 1936, no. 61 (not shown at Art Institute of Chicago venue)..
1940
Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1940, no. 82, repro.
1943
Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 84-85, repro.
1947
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Los Angeles County Museum, 1947, no. 4.
A Survey of Watercolor: East and West, Old and New, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1947, no cat.
1953
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.
1954
Drawings and Watercolors by Flemish and Dutch Masters, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954.
1956
Rembrandt and His Pupils, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1956, no. 3.
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.
1958
Drawings and Prints by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no cat.
1960
Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1960, no. 49, repro.
1962
Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat.
1966
Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.
1969
Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 33, 39, repro.
1998
Rembrandt et Amsterdam: Promenades avec Rembrandt dans la ville d'Amsterdam et ses alentourg. Gemeentearchief Amsterdam; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 1998-99, cat no 33, plate 58.
2006
Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
1943
Mongan, Elizabeth. Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1943: 85, repro.
1969
National Gallery of Art. Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art: Commemorating the tercentenary of the artist's death. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1969: 39, no. 33, repro.
1973
Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 1238
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 668, no. 1063, color repro.
Wikidata ID
Q64620311