# Cottage among Trees, in 17th-century Netherlands

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

Our note:

> 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.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1650
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on paper washed with brown
- Dimensions: 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.
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.100.939
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Rembrandt van Rijn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/rembrandt-van-rijn), Dutch, 1606–1669

Rembrandt trained in Leiden and Amsterdam, settled in Amsterdam in the early 1630s and became the city’s most sought-after portraitist.

14 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Rembrandt van Rijn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/rembrandt-van-rijn?hang=750) (14 works)
- [More Dutch and Flemish Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-and-flemish-baroque?hang=750) (94 works)
- [The 17th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17?hang=750) (266 works)

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