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Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669

Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road

1650
Etching and drypoint on paper.
161 x 202 mm
RvR 307
NHD number
NHD 248, III
Notes
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)
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated lower left, "Rembrandt f 1650".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over letters "LC" (Strasbourg lily).
Provenance

Wilhelm Koller (1829-1884), Vienna; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), Oswego, New York; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1900.

Associated names
Irwin, Theodore, 1827-1902, former owner.
Koller, Wilhelm, 1829-1884, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Department
Century prints
School