Cottage among Trees
ca. 1650
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown
Dimensions
6 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (17.1 x 27.6 cm); vertical strip 6 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (17.2 x 3.2 cm) added by artist to the sheet at right.
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Accession Number
29.100.939
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of Rembrandt van Rijn's *Cottage among Trees*, captivating drawing from around 1650. Created during the Dutch master's mature Baroque period, this landscape sketch exemplifies his profound interest in nature and everyday rural scenes. Rembrandt, renowned for his innovative use of light and shadow (chiaroscuro), captures a humble cottage nestled among dense trees with remarkable intimacy, evoking the quiet beauty of the Dutch countryside. Executed in pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash on pre-washed with brown tone, the work showcases Rembrandt's masterful dr...
About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...