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Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606–1669; born Leiden, Netherlands; died Amsterdam, Netherlands
x1960-74
Produced between 1640 and 1652, Rembrandt’s atmospheric land­scape etchings were based on sketches that he made during walks in the flat countryside near Amsterdam. Many of these feature modest farm buildings. In this early example, Rembrandt inserts the thatched cottage and its adjoining wagon shed into an imaginary composite vista that includes a distant view of Amsterdam on the left and a nearer view of a local manor house known as "Kostverloren" on the right. While the humble structure dominates the scene, details revealing a human presence—children fishing, a mother watching from the open door, and a figure walking with a dog—quietly emerge from the densely etched foreground.
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Information

Object Number
x1960-74
Maker
Rembrandt van Rijn
Medium
Etching
Dates

1641

Dimensions
plate: 12.8 × 32.1 cm (5 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 13.5 x 32.7 cm. (5 5/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Place Made

Europe, Netherlands

Type
prints, etchings
Subject
landscapes (representations), cottages
Materials
printing ink

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680842597

Arthur Mayger Hind, <em>Rembrandt's etchings: an essay and a catalogue, with some notes on the drawings</em> (New York: Scribner, 1912)., no. 177

6452 0
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/323251

E. F. Gersaint and Adam von Bartsch, <em>Catalogue raisonné de toutes les estampes qui forment l’oeuvre de Rembrandt et ceux de ses principaux imitateurs</em> (Vienne: A Blumauer, 1797)., no. 225

6382 1752
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1534415

Ludwig Münz, <em>Rembrandt's Etchings: Reproductions of the Whole Original Etched Work</em> (London: Phaidon Press, 1952)., no. 147

6476 1952
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774336

<p>"Recent acquisitions", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.</p>, p. 26

3371 1961
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10926

George Biörklund and Osbart H. Barnard, Rembrandt's Etchings, True and False (Stockholm, New York [etc.], 1968)., no. 41

6474 1968
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8532176

<p>F.W.H. Hollstein, “Rembrandt,” <em>Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings, and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700</em> (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1969).</p>, no. 225

6590 1969
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/844154989

<p>Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, Ger Luijten, ed., "Rembrandt," <em>New Hollstein Dutch &amp; Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700 </em>(Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound &amp; Vision Publishers ; Amsterdam: In co-operation with the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 2013).</p>, no. 199, p. 85

6453 2013

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