Landscape with a View toward Haarlem (The Goldweigher's Field)

1651

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image depicts a landscape viewed from a slight elevation. The horizon is high in the image, featuring a distant city skyline with a tower. There are rolling fields, trees, and a small village with clustered buildings. The terrain is detailed with horizontal striations and hatching, creating texture. The color palette is monochromatic, with various shades of gray, as this is an etching. The sky occupies a large portion at the top, depicted with minimal shading.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Accession Number

    1949.1.45

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 234, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Adam Gottlieb Thiermann [died 159, Berlin (Lugt 2434). Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606 and Lugt 4957). (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1925 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

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. 257, state only.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 233-236; fig.4.46, 235.

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q65082082

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