The Windmill

1641

Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 14.1 × 20.6 cm (5 9/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.1.38

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 233, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Louis Galichon (1829-1893), Paris (Lugt 1060); Jules Gerbeau (1833-1906), Paris (Lugt 1165); (Kennedy & Co., New York); purchased 1911 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • The Influence of Rembrandt on Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Landscape Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971, no cat.

2006

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1923

  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993-, no. 200, only.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at lower right: Rembrandt f. 1641; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: a / 45135 h150 233 / B-15,244 [upsidedown]; at lower center in graphite in later hand: 80 [circled]

Markings

recto: none; verso: Louis Galichon (Lugt 1060); Jule Gerbeau (Lugt 1165); and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65082057

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