Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)

Benesch considered this loosely drawn landscape to be by Rembrandt, noting the ‘intensive suggestion of spatial and atmospheric depth achieved in a manner as rhapsodic as it is monumental' (op. cit., no. 1332). Peter Schatborn recently suggested that the drawing can be compared to a sheet attributed to Heyman Dullaert showing a landscape with a road, executed in a similar technique, in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (H. Bevers, Zeichnungen der Rembrandtschule Im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Kritischer Katalog, Dresden, 2018, no. 52, ill).
We are grateful to Peter Schatborn and Martin Royalton-Kisch for their assistance in cataloguing this drawing.