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Rembrandt van Rijn

Landscape (Farm Buildings at the Dijk) (recto); Partial Landscape with Trees and Fence (verso)

Maker

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)

Title

Landscape (Farm Buildings at the Dijk) (recto); Partial Landscape with Trees and Fence (verso)
(recto) Landscape (Farm Buildings at the Dijk)

Year

ca. 1648

Medium

  • pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper

Materials

null

Dimensions

14.5 x 25.9 cm (5 3/4 x 10 3/16 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund and Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

49.134

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Publications

  • Books

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

  • Books

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Alt Author: Johnson, Deborah J.

Exhibition History

Design and Description
Renaissance and Baroque Drawings
Jan 27, 2006 – Apr 09, 2006

Label copy

When drawing landscape, which he did on site, Rembrandt began with fine lines that he then elaborated with heavier ones. This can be observed in the handling of grasses at the drawing’s center. Diverse markings, some executed with a half-dry pen, create unexpected depth in the landscape. Rembrandt also made corrections to his own drawings with white paint. A possible correction can be viewed at the left, where an area of white paint appears midway up the side of the house.

Drawing the Line
Mar 30, 2001 – Jun 10, 2001

Label copy

Whereas Dürer obsessively fills the sheet with line, Rembrandt's drawing is distinguished by his economy and his use of the white of the paper. Rembrandt built the structure of the picture with condensed areas of mark-making, leaving most of the sheet empty to convey the light and atmosphere of the landscape. His line feels quick, sure, and free. In the bottom center, Rembrandt's dark, broad, and bold strokes suggest the foliage at the edge of the canal and carry the viewer's eye into the picture and over the bridge. At the right edge of the picture, dry vertical pen strokes of varying width define the rugged embankment. The shape of the figure at the center repeats throughout the image -- in the door of the house, in the cluster of trees, in the figures at the horizon line -- to keep the viewer moving through the landscape, as do the figures populating the scene.

Treasures on Paper
Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection
Jun 13, 1989 – Aug 19, 1989
Old Master Drawings
Sep 02, 1983 – Oct 16, 1983

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Landscape (Farm Buildings at the Dijk) (recto); Partial Landscape with Trees and Fence (verso); (recto) Landscape (Farm Buildings at the Dijk), ca. 1648
pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper
14.5 x 25.9 cm (5 3/4 x 10 3/16 inches)
Jesse Metcalf Fund and Mary B. Jackson Fund 49.134

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