Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road

Rembrandt made some thirty etchings of the Dutch countryside from the early 1640s to the early 1650s. This row of thatched-roof cottages along a rutted dirt road is typical of those sketched by the artist during long walks outside of Amsterdam. His depictions of village life served as a template for nineteenth-century French artists such as Rousseau and Millet, who collected his prints and quoted him in their own compositions.
Cross-hatching added to the sidewall of the first cottage. (White and Boon)