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 landscape viewed from an elevated perspective. The horizon is high in the composition with a broad sky. The ground has intricate lines leading to a path. There are trees, a thatched roof house, and a distant tower or steeple. The image is in monochrome with different linework and shading for depth and detail.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and drypoint

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Accession Number

    1955.6.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

1990

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

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

Q65364835

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