Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood
Medium
Pen and inks ranging from light to dark brown, brown washes, corrected in white (oxidized, partially abraded), and touches of red chalk (in added structures to the left of the main cottage).
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 17 15/16 in. (29.9 x 45.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.792
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood (1644) captures van Rijn's masterful in landscape drawing. Created during the Dutch Golden Age, this work reflects the artist's fascination with rural scenes amid his prolific career in Amsterdam. Rembrandt, a Baroque giant renowned for his dramatic use of light and shadow (chiaroscuro), often turned to landscapes in the 1640s as personal studies, blending observation from nature with imaginative detail. Executed in pen and inks of varying tones, enriched with brown washes for depth, ...
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...