Landscape with a farm building and the 'house with the tower', print, printmaker: Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650, paper, Japanese paper (handmade paper), etching, drypoint, intaglio printmaking technique, etching and drypoint, printed with light plate tone on Japanese paper, height 121 mm x width 318 mm, Exhibitions, Shown in exhibition, Masterpieces on paper: Light and Darkness, A wide landscape etching shows a rural scene with a thatched barn set among trees and bushes, with the barn’s dark textured walls contrasting its lighter sloping roof. To the right, beyond a line of trees, a tall building with a domed tower rises above the foliage. In the middle ground a simple path or road runs past wooden posts and a vertical wooden structure with a crossbar, bordered by grassy and shrubby vegetation. The left side features dense, dark clumps of trees and a sky rendered with horizontal, hatched lines, while the foreground is an open, lightly marked field with scattered low marks and subtle text...
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Landscape with a farm building and the 'house with the tower', print, printmaker: Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1650, paper, Japanese paper (handmade paper), etching, drypoint, intaglio printmaking technique, etching and drypoint, printed with light plate tone on Japanese paper, height 121 mm x width 318 mm, Exhibitions, Shown in exhibition, Masterpieces on paper: Light and Darkness, A wide landscape etching shows a rural scene with a thatched barn set among trees and bushes, with the barn’s dark textured walls contrasting its lighter sloping roof. To the right, beyond a line of trees, a tall building with a domed tower rises above the foliage. In the middle ground a simple path or road runs past wooden posts and a vertical wooden structure with a crossbar, bordered by grassy and shrubby vegetation. The left side features dense, dark clumps of trees and a sky rendered with horizontal, hatched lines, while the foreground is an open, lightly marked field with scattered low marks and subtle texture. The overall image is monochrome with fine linear etching marks creating shading and detail.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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Landscape farm building house tower print printmaker Rembrandt van Rijn c 1650 paper Japanese paper handmade paper etching drypoint intaglio printmaking technique printed light plate tone height 121 mm x width 318 mm Exhibitions Shown exhibition Masterpieces Light Darkness wide landscape etching rural scene thatched barn set trees bushes barn’s dark textured walls contrasting lighter sloping roof right beyond line tall building domed tower rises foliage middle ground simple path road runs past wooden posts vertical wooden structure crossbar bordered grassy shrubby vegetation left side features dense dark clumps sky rendered horizontal hatched lines foreground open lightly marked field scattered low marks subtle texture image monochrome fine linear marks creating shading detail

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