A Landscape with Farm Buildings among Trees

c. 1650/1655

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image depicts a landscape scene with a slightly elevated point of view. The horizon is high in the composition, featuring trees and a structure. The artwork uses loose brushstrokes with ink or a similar medium, creating a sketch-like quality with minimal detail. The color palette is monochromatic in varying shades of brown on tan paper, giving it an earthy and subdued visual impact. Sketchy lines suggest a small path or stream leading towards the trees and structure in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 6.2 x 16.7 cm (2 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.217.75

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Benesch 1973, no. 1290

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Francis Springell [1898-1974], Portinscale, Keswick, England, by 1943; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., 1979; Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1981; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1982, beginning with University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington.

2006

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1943

  • Hind, A.M. "Two Sketches by Rembrandt," The Connoisseur. vol. 112 (Dec. 1943): p.128.

1954

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. London, 1954-1957: 6(1957):no. 1290, fig. 1519.

1973

  • Benesch, Otto. The Drawings of Rembrandt. 6 vols. London: Phaidon, 1973. (enlarged and edited by Eva Benesch from 1954-1957 ed.): no. 1290

Wikidata ID

Q64620319

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