Landscape with Trees, Farm Buildings and a Tower

c. 1651

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image shows a rural landscape from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon is high in the image, featuring trees and buildings, including a thatched-roof structure to the right. There are trees and rooftops in the background. The artist's detailed brushstrokes create texture and depth, with a monochromatic color palette of black and grey. Loose sketchy lines depict fields with sparse vegetation in the foreground, transitioning to a denser area with trees and structures in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Accession Number

    1949.1.51

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 223, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alfred Seymour [1824-1888], Trent and London (Lugt 176). (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1932 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. 47, 50, repro.

  • Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY, 1969-1970, no. 22, repro.

1971

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

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1990

  • Rembrandt's Landscapes: Drawings and Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 82b, repro.

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.

1990

  • Schneider, Cynthia P. Rembrandt's Landscapes: Prints and Drawings. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: no. 82b.

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. 256, state iv/iv.

Wikidata ID

Q65082100

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