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B 226

Landscape with a cottage and a large tree

  • French title:
    Le paysage avec le grand arbre
  • German title:
    Die Hutte bie dem grossen Baum
  • Dutch title:
    Boerenhuis met grote boom
  • New Hollstein:
    198
  • Rembrandt in Black & White:
    150

Etching. 1641.
Size: 127 x 320 mm. Surface: 406 cm2.
Signed and dated, at the bottom, in the middle just left of the grasses: Rembrandt. f. 1641

NH 198 – Only state

Copper Plate

The copperplate was not in any of the major collections and is probably not in existence.


Rarity of impressions

  • In auctions (2000-2025): common                                          Early: 23                                       ⦿⦿⦿⊙⊙⊙

  • In collections (New Hollstein – 2013): common                     Early: 63                                      ⦿⦿⦿⊙⊙⊙

  • Catalogue Nowell-Usticke (1967): R-: a rather uncommon long landscape                          ⦿⦿⦿⊙⊙⊙


Description

It is generally assumed that this print is a pendant of Landscape with a cottage and a haybarn (B225/NH199).


Subject/Sitter

Based on the type of house it is likely that the location is somewhere near the river Schinkel, on the westside of Amsterdam


Related

A drawing in the Louvre, probably made somewhat earlier (Benesch 797), shows similar cottages and trees along a road.


Copies

NH lists three copies, of which one in the same direction: copy C by Costantino Cumano signed Cumano Sc (132 x 328 mm, WB 1).
There are two copies in reverse. Copy A is by John Smith of Chichester (128 x 316 mm, WB 3). Copy B is by Richard Byron (his nr 8, 102 x 200 mm, WB 2).


Attributions and reviews

The etching is considered as special by Coppier and Rovinsky.


States

All authors list one state only.


Prints and collections

There are counterproofs in Brussels, in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and in the British Museum.


Watermarks

Basilisk (c. 1640-47); Strasbourg lily (6 ed., one 1641); Strasbourg lily with 4WR (2 ed. one with cm HIS); Countermark HIS; A total of nine editions.
Two editions printed in 1641 show the same watermark as impressions of B225, confirming the theory that they were meant as pendants. At least two more editions were printed after 1650.


Literature

H 178, BB 41-B, G 222, M 307, Mz 146, RA 610, Cl 223, W 223, Bl 326, Du 223, CD 151, S 103.
Wandelingen 1998, p. 334; Hinterding 2008, p. 425-427;


Rembrandt in Black & White: 150

NH/WB: Only state
A very good, contemporary impression.
Sheet 128 x 319 mm, no margins, cut at the platemark (= 0%).
No watermark, vertical chain lines.


Provenance

In the collection of Alfred Seymour, a judge and member of the UK parliament (1824-1888, Trent, Lugt 176), his collector’s mark in black ink verso. Alfred is the brother of the famous collector and artist Henry Seymour. Probably in the posthumous sale of the collection with Sotheby’s London in April 1921.
In the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (Lugt 1932e and 1932f), their stamp in red ink and their decession stamp in black ink, with handwritten cancelled AJ, verso;


Exhibitions

Rembrandt in Zwart-Wit, Het Markiezenhof in Bergen op Zoom, August – November 2013; Stedelijk Museum Vianen, October 2017 – January 2018;
Rembrandt in Black & White, Chateau des Penthes – Geneva, June– October 2016;
Rembrandt: Paysages, Fonds Glenat (Couvent Ste.Cecile – Grenoble), February – June 2023;
Rembrandt, 17th century photographer, Daegu Art Museum (Korea), November 2023 – March 2024;
Rembrandt, de fotograaf, Westfries Museum (Hoorn), June 2024 – January 2025;