Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Lot 45

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Landscape with a Cottage and Hay Barn: Oblong (B., Holl. 225; H. 177)

Closed7 December 2010

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GBP 43,250

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Landscape with a Cottage and Hay Barn: Oblong (B., Holl. 225; H. 177)
etching, 1641, partial watermark Strasbourg Lily (Hinterding A-4WR-a, dated 1641), a fine early impression, printing with tiny touches of burr on the signature, on the grass in the central foreground and at the extreme left, with 3-4 mm. margins, in excellent condition, framed
P. 128 x 322 mm., S. 136 x 327 mm.

Specialist note

This type of Strasbourg Lily watermark has so far only been recorded in another, in format and subject closely related etching of the same year, the Landscape with a Cottage and a large Tree (B. 226).
Despite the touches of burr which occur in the foreground of fine, early impressions such as the present one, Hinterding states that the print was executed in pure etching. The burr might simply be caused by the artist working too vigourously on the etching ground. (E. Hinterding, Rembrandt Etchings from the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, 2008, (p. 423).