Cottage with White Paling among Trees, by Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1648
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Cottage with White Paling among Trees

Also titled Huisje met houten omheining tussen bomen

Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)

c. 1648

Medium
paper, deck paint, ink
Classification
drawing
Dimensions
height 171 mm (6 mm strip of paper added at the bottom) x width 255 mm
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Credit line
Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Rights
Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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About this work

Rembrandt drew this little house on the Spaarndammerdijk during one of his walks around Amsterdam. The drawing served as the starting point for the 1648 etching. There are a number of differences between the drawing and the print. The etching is much smaller, the trees have a completely different shape, and Rembrandt added various objects to it, such as a horse’s skull.