The Three Trees, 1643

Not on View

Medium

etching, with drypoint and burin, on toned laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 21.2 × 27.8 cm (8 3/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

White/Boon 1969, no. 212, State only

Accession Number

1949.1.39

Artists / Makers

Rembrandt van Rijn (artist) Dutch, 1606 - 1669

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower left: Rembrandt f. 1643; verso: at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: C. A. [or N.?] F. / B-15,245; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: #9739

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1912 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Gallatin, R. Horace
Knoedler & Company, M.

Exhibition History

1969: Rembrandt in the National Gallery of Art [Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Artist's Death], National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 43, 45, repro.

1971: The Influence of Rembrandt on Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Landscape Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971, no cat.

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

2006: Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1923: Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969: White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Rembrandt, Erik Hinterding and Jaco Rutgers, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993-, no. 212, state only.