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Rembrandt van Rijn

View of Amsterdam from the Kadijk

Maker

Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)

Title

View of Amsterdam from the Kadijk

Year

ca. 1641

Medium

  • Etching on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Etching on paper

Materials

etching

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 11.3 x 15.2 cm (4 7/16 x 6 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Marks: Verso: Stamped with collector's mark of August Artaria (1807-1893; Lugt 33) and Julius Elischer von Thurzóbánya (1846-1909; Lugt 824)

Watermark: Foolscap [fragmentary] (Hinterding K.a.a.)

Identification

State

Only state

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein no. 203 (only state)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mr. Henry D. Sharpe

Object Number

48.356

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions
Feb 15, 2019 – Aug 04, 2019

Label copy

Windmills, steeples, and ship masts bristle along a flat low horizon. Tiny human figures dot the middle ground, while the foreground is taken up by turf and canals. The artist’s graphic marks occupy about a third of this sheet, which is otherwise left conspicuously-almost gapingly-blank. Working rapidly on a small scale, Rembrandt depicts a recognizable view of Amsterdam as seen from the surrounding countryside. The sketchy treatment and economical mark-making in Rembrandt’s landscapes have been widely admired by later artists.

Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print
Jun 17, 2011 – Nov 06, 2011

Label copy

Although we know that Rembrandt’s vast print collection gave him ample opportunity to study prints by other artists including Callot, his approach to landscape etching owes little to the French master. In this delicate, distant view of his home city of Amsterdam, Rembrandt contained the entire vista in the lower third of the composition, while leaving a slight film of plate tone on the upper portion to intimate a changing sky. A clump of turf in the foreground leads our eye back through a few watery trails, but Rembrandt’s recession into space is not as measured as that of Callot, nor as stridently symmetrical. The scene is literal, recording recognizable places such as the Old Church and the warehouses of the Dutch East India Company. Rembrandt’s quickly-sketched, calligraphic lines accentuate an overall impression of informality and immediacy.

Exhibition of Etchings by Rembrandt
Feb 05, 1949 – Mar 30, 1949

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Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
View of Amsterdam from the Kadijk, ca. 1641
Etching on paper
Plate: 11.3 x 15.2 cm (4 7/16 x 6 inches)
Gift of Mr. Henry D. Sharpe 48.356

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