Cottage with White Paling among Trees

Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1648

Rembrandt drew this little house on the Spaarndammerdijk during one of his walks around Amsterdam. The drawing served as the starting point for the 1648 etching. There are a number of differences between the drawing and the print. The etching is much smaller, the trees have a completely different shape, and Rembrandt added various objects to it, such as a horse’s skull.

Artwork typedrawing
Object numberRP-T-1981-1
Dimensionsheight 171 mm (6 mm strip of paper added at the bottom) x width 255 mm
Physical characteristicsreed pen and brown ink, with brown wash and opaque white; later additions in greyish-mauve wash; framing line in brown ink

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Identification

Title(s)
Cottage with White Paling among Trees
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1981-1
Part of catalogue
Catalogue reference
- Schatborn 30
- Christopher White, Rembrandt as an etcher, Londen 1969, p. 207-208, afb. 311.
- Cat. tent. Rembrandt after three hundred years, Chicago 1969, nr. 119, afb. 217
- Christopher White, 'Rembrandt's etching and drawing of cottage with a white paling', The Burlington Magazine 110 (1968), p. 390-394.

Creation

Creation
draughtsman: Rembrandt van Rijn, Amsterdam
Dating
c. 1648
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Material and technique

Physical description
reed pen and brown ink, with brown wash and opaque white; later additions in greyish-mauve wash; framing line in brown ink
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height 171 mm (6 mm strip of paper added at the bottom) x width 255 mm

Explanatory note

Voorstudie voor prent.

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Subject

Exhibitions

Acquisition and rights

Credit line
Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Acquisition
purchase 1981
Copyright
Public domain
Provenance
...; ? Dr Johannes Claesz Furnerius (1582-1668), Rotterdam;{Amsterdam/Paris 2015-16, p. 80.} ...; the dealer Georges Ryaux (1894-1978), Paris;{According to Benesch 1954-57, part IV, p. 222, no. C 41.}...; collection of Charles C. Cunningham Jr (b. 1934), Boston, by 1968;{White 1968, p. 392 (as private collection, USA).} from whom, through the mediation of the dealer R.M. Light, Santa Barbara, $356,150, with support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernardfonds and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, 1981
Remarks
Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

- Schatborn 30
- Christopher White, Rembrandt as an etcher, Londen 1969, p. 207-208, afb. 311.
- Cat. tent. Rembrandt after three hundred years, Chicago 1969, nr. 119, afb. 217
- Christopher White, 'Rembrandt's etching and drawing of cottage with a white paling', The Burlington Magazine 110 (1968), p. 390-394.

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