The Three Trees
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet trimmed within platemark: 20.9 × 28.1 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
29271
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Rembrandt’s masterful Three Trees is the artist’s largest landscape print, an atmospheric etching and drypoint creation that epitomizes the ever-changing drama of the outdoors. In the face of nature, the human element is reduced to a group of miniscule figures, including a fisherman and his uninterested female companion on the left, various cowherds, and two distant figures on the hills beyond. An elegantly attired couple embrace tenderly in a private bower on the lower right, seeking companions...
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...