Cottage Beside a Canal With a View of Ouderkerk
c. 1641
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 13.7 × 20.7 cm (5 7/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 16.7 × 24.2 cm (6 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
29179
Art Historical Context
In the serene etching *Cottage Beside a Canal With a View of Ouderkerk* (c. 1641), Rembrandt van Rijn captures the tranquil Dutch countryside near Amsterdam. Created during the Dutch Golden Age, this print depicts a modest cottage hugging a winding canal, with the distant village of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel visible on the horizon. Rembrandt, a master of the Baroque style, occasionally turned from his famed portraits and biblical scenes to landscape etchings like this one, revealing his deep appreciation for the flat, watery expanses of his homeland. Etching on cream laid paper, the work measur...
About the Artist
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...