The Three Trees, 1643

Not on View

Medium

etching, with drypoint and burin, on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.)

sheet: 21.5 x 28.3 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 212, State only

Accession Number

1955.6.10

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower left: Rembrandt f. 1643; verso: at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: 209 / B-181; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: B. 212 M. 309.

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1961: Rembrandt Etchings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961, no cat.

1968: Seventeenth-Century Landscape Prints from the National Gallery of Art Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968-1969, no cat.

1972: Rembrandt, Master Etcher: A Study Exhibition, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, 1972., no. 15, repro.

1973: Etchings by Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, 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. 212, only.