Landscape with Three Gabled Cottages Beside a Road
1650
Rembrandt seldom depicted contemporary Amsterdam, favoring the rustic scenes he encountered during frequent sketching trips to the Dutch countryside. These unassuming cottages were a short barge right from the richest capital in Europe, yet seem worlds away. Rembrandt's preference for the artfully distressed over the grandiose in his landscapes suggests a fondness for a rural way of life that was vanishing from the increasingly urban Dutch Republic.
Etching and drypoint
6 5/16 x 7 15/16 in. (16.1 x 20.2 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Leo Wallerstein
64.131