Cottage among Treesca. 1650
A thatched cottage stands half hidden among a dense cluster of trees, drawn in pen and brown ink with washes on paper prepared with a brown tone. More about this work
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A thatched cottage stands half hidden among a dense cluster of trees, drawn in pen and brown ink with washes on paper prepared with a brown tone. Rembrandt made many landscape drawings on walks around Amsterdam around 1650, and this is among the most admired: a few firm lines establish the structure, while washes of varying depth evoke the mass of foliage and the play of light. The subject is humble, yet the drawing has a quiet monumentality.
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How it was made
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch, 1606–1669 · Born in Leiden; died in Amsterdam.
Rembrandt trained in Leiden and Amsterdam, settled in Amsterdam in the early 1630s and became the city’s most sought-after portraitist. His later work grows rougher and more searching, with thick paint, deep shadow and faces that seem lost in thought, as in Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, painted for a Sicilian collector. He was also the leading etcher of his age, reworking plates through many states and making the medium as expressive as painting.
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Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 29.100.939
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
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