Landscape with Cottages and a Hay Barn: Oblong

Rembrandt van Rijn , Dutch, 1606-1669

Title

Date1641

MediumEtching with touches of drypoint on paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 14.5 × 32.4 cm

SignedLower right: Rembrandt f/1641

Credit LinePurchased, 2023

Object numberNGI.2024.13

DescriptionRembrandt picked up etching landscape scenes in the 1640s, and again in the 1650s. This fine work depicts a cottage shrouded in trees, and with an adjoining hay barn. Three figures and a dog are pictured along the river’s edge, while two other characters busy themselves inside the cottage. As the eyes become accustomed to the busy lines, further details in the landscape come to the fore. While the scene is rendered in a highly naturalistic way, the composition came from Rembrandt’s imagination, derived from drawings made in the countryside around Amsterdam and developed in the studio.
InscriptionOn verso: Rembrandt/B 224 on large paper/Workshop proof, where the upper plate edge/is prevented by turning/the tension of the press/mentioned in Seizlitz, Rovinski and Hollstein/coll. Artaria L90 Coll Goldschmidt L2926/sale Amsler & Ruthardt 1905/Unique/3407 (in Dutch)
ProvenanceAugust Artaria (1807-1893), Vienna (with the firm's stamp, Lugt 90); his posthumous sale, Artaria & Co., Vienna, lot 749 ('Épreuve de toute beauté avec barbes. NB. Cette Épreuve est plus haute de presqu'un pouce, mais je ne crois pas que cela constitue un état; je pense que ça provident du tirage.'). (Fl. 585; to Meder of Amsler & Ruthardt); With Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin; their sale, 17 April 1905 (and following days), lot 1135 ('Prachtvoller Abdruck dieser schönen und geschätzten Landschaft, voll Grat, von tadelloser Erhaltung (...) Abdruck vor Verkleinerung der Platte (...) Unikum.') (Mk. 2130); Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt (circa 1840-1914), Berlin (Lugt 2926); Private Collection, New York (probably L. E. Havemeyer); exhibited and for sale at Kennedy & Co., New York, January 1929, no. 119; With Frederick Keppel & Co., New York (their codes CU and HEXV in pencil verso); With Theo Laurentius, Zaltbommel (inscribed WB and described in pencil verso); With Kennedy Galleries, New York; Sam Josefowitz (Lugt 6094); acquired from the above in 1980; then by descent to the previous owners; Purchased, Christie's, London, The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt Sale, Lot 36, 2023