- Museum number
- 1895,0915.1259
- Description
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A farm seen through trees on the bank of a river. c.1653
Pen and black ink with grey wash on paper washed brown; ruled framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Verso: see Inscriptions.
Watermark: posthorn in a crowned shield (not unlike Heawood 2715, Amsterdam, 1668; Laurentius catalogue p.255, nos.620-21, datable 1636 and 1637).
- Production date
- 1653 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres
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Width: 234 millimetres (chain lines horizontal, 25mm apart)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Further literature: Achim Gnann, 'Rembrandt landscape drawings' (Petersberg, 2021) fig. 155 (as Rembrandt, dated c. 1651, depicting the Amstelveenseweg).
Entry from Martin Royalton-Kisch, ‘Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school’, 2010, Rembrandt, cat. no.68.
The drawing belongs to the group of landscapes discussed under cat. no.69 (1895,0915.1283, q.v.), which has a similar watermark. The details of the building in the present view include an outdoor lavatory and a haystack towards the left and a high barn ('stolp') attached to the nearer end of the main building ('langhuis') of the farm. Smoke shutters are just visible on the ridge of the roof of the 'langhuis'.
The site has not been identified but was almost certainly in the vicinity of Amsterdam.[1]
NOTE:
[1] My thanks to Boudewijn Bakker for discussing the architectural and topographical details of the drawing (2 August 1989).
LITERATURE (always as Rembrandt unless otherwise stated):
Robinson, 1876, no.787; Lippmann, IV, no.67; Kleinmann, IV, no.62; Hofstede de Groot, 1906, no.960; Wurzbach, 1910, p.418; London, 1915, no.103 (compared with cat. no.69; 1895,0915.1283); Van Dyke, 1927, p.134 (not Rembrandt; belongs to Van Dyke's group I); Benesch, 1935, p.47 (c.1650; compares 'View of Sloten', Chatsworth, Benesch 1237, ''t Molentje', also Chatsworth, Benesch 1308, and the 'Farm Houses and Hay-Barn' in the Petit Palais, Benesch 1241); Wimmer, 1935, p.42 (c.1650); Wimmer, 1942, pp.42 and 48 (c.1652-5); Rosenberg, 1948/64, I, p.89/152, repr. II, fig.128 (early 1640s/late 1640s); Rosenberg, 1956, p.130, repr. fig.31 (c.1640); Benesch, VI, 1957/73, no.1244, repr. fig.1472/1547 (c.1650; quotes London, 1915); Drost, 1957, p.216 (compares Elsheimer); White, 1962, repr. pl.29 (c.1650); Slive, 1965, II, no.514, repr; Haak, 1969/68, p.227, repr. fig.380 (c.1650); Baer, 1970, no.91, repr.; Schneider, 1990, pp.58 and p.97, repr. p.57, fig.44, (c.1650-53); Schatborn, 1994, p.23; Giltaij, 1995, p.101 (grey wash almost certainly later); Berlin, 2006, p.147, n.2, under no.42 (compares Berlin drawing, Benesch 1251).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1878-9, no.314;
London, British Museum, 1895, no.384b;
1899, no.A42;
1938, no.103;
1956, p.12, no.8;
1992, Drawings by Rembrandt and his Circle, no.79, repr. in colour (c.1650-53);
1996-7, no.87, repr. in colour;
Kassel-Leiden, Gemäldegalerie/Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, 2006, 'Rembandt's Landscapes', p.151, fig.126, and no.45.
- Condition
- Generally good; a diagonal crease near lower right corner; other slightly creased or abraded areas near corners and at middle of left edge.
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Harman (according to Robinson, 1876 - see Lit. under Comment); Andrew James;* his sale, Christie’s, 28 April 1873, (unidentified lot), bt for Malcolm, £55-10-0 (according to annotated copy of Malcolm catalogue); John Malcolm of Poltalloch; purchased with his collection, 1895.
* Waagen, IV, 1857, p.215 and Brunet, 1866, p.260, mention ‘several landscapes’ in James’ collection.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.1259
