# Cottage with White Paling among Trees

- By: Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Prins Bernhard Fonds and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1981-1--6a733a37b29ac994144ec5e8e5282497)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/KRuQu/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.