# Cottage among Trees

**Rembrandt van Rijn** (Dutch, 1606–1669)  
ca. 1650  
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown  
6 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (17.1 x 27.6 cm); vertical strip 6 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (17.2 x 3.2 cm) added by artist to the sheet at right.

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.100.939. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337491).

## About this work

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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Rembrandt van Rijn drew this in about 1650, aged about 39. It is now at The Met in New York.

### 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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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## Facts

- Type: Drawings
- The artist was about 39
- Real size: about 6½ × 11 in (17 × 28 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: Houses, Landscapes
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1019.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/1019/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/cottage-among-trees-met-337491).