Landscape with a Stone Bridge
Also titled Landschap met stenen brug
Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606–1669)
c. 1638
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 29.5 cm x width 42.5 cm x depth 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and A. Bredius, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Rembrandt painted only a few landscapes, mostly imaginary mountain scenes. Although The Stone Bridge is composed of elements studied from reality, it probably does not represent a specific place. The painting’s magical quality derives from its dramatic illumination: a beam of sunlight breaks through the clouds, making the approaching storm seem twice as menacing.
