Landscape with a Cottage and Hay Barn: Oblong

1641

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image depicts a rural scene with a thatched-roof cottage slightly right of the center. The horizon shows a line of trees and a small settlement with towers or steeples. The fine, detailed lines create textures on the landscape and house. The color palette is monochromatic, with sepia tones on the paper beneath dark ink lines. A path leads past the cottage with details like a wooden cart and foliage. A figure stands in the distance to the right, crossing a narrow bridge.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Accession Number

    1949.1.49

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 225, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1929 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 81, 65 (incorrectly identified as accession number B-15225 in catalogue).

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. 199, state only.

Wikidata ID

Q65082090

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