Landscape with a View Toward Haarlem (The Goldweigher's Field)
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper [counterproof]
Dimensions
Overall: 11.9 x 32.1 cm (4 11/16 x 12 5/8 in.) overall: 12.2 x 32.2 cm (4 13/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)
Accession Number
1968.4.3
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...