a landscape drawing by rembrandt

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A Landscape Drawing by Rembrandt Author(s): Arthur M. Hind Source: The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1933), p. 63 Published by: British Museum Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4421433 . Accessed: 24/06/2014 23:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . British Museum is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The British Museum Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.105 on Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:57:51 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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A Landscape Drawing by RembrandtAuthor(s): Arthur M. HindSource: The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1933), p. 63Published by: British MuseumStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4421433 .

Accessed: 24/06/2014 23:57

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59. A LANDSCAPE DRAWING BY REMBRANDT.

ONE of the finest examples of Rembrandt's landscape drawing, a Study of Cottages and Trees, was recently presented by the

National Art Collections Fund. It came from the Woodburn collec- tion and appeared in a sale atSotheby's on 2o July 1932 (No. 63),but was up till then undescribed. The ground to the left of the dyke is left blank, but comparison with other drawings, particularly one at Chatsworth, Hofstede de Groot 835 (Vasari Society, 2nd Series VI.

20), shows conclusively that it is a study on the bank of the Amstel a few miles outside Amsterdam. H. de G. 835 shows the same group of cottages and trees, a road and the towing-path left of the dyke, and then the bend of the river. The locality of this group of drawings, which includes two others at Chatsworth, H. de G. 837 and 838, reproduced in the Vasari Society III. 23 and IV. 25, is discussed

by Frits Lugt, Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam, Berlin, 1920, p. 112, &c. The group of cottages and trees is used by Rembrandt in his long

landscape etching with Trees,farm-buildings, and a Tower (H. 244). The etching has in addition amid the trees on the right a building with a tower, which in the first state shows a cupola, probably the same building which appears in a drawing belonging to Mr Otto Gutekunst (Vasari Society, 2nd Series, V. I o). It is interesting to note how in the etching Rembrandt has eliminated the river and

replaced it by a field on the left, and has added a sunset effect, with brilliant contrasts of light and shade, in making his composition.

A. M. H.

60. A LANDSCAPE DRAWING ATTRIBUTED TO VAN DYCK.

A LARGE drawing in body-colour on grey-blue paper, measur- ing I I

? I73 inches, representing a Country Road flanked by Trees, with two ladies seated in theforeground, was recently purchased out of the Florence Fund. It appeared in a sale at Sotheby's on

July 20 (lot Io05) under the name of I. Rademaker, from the late

eighteenth-century inscription on the old paper mount (I. Rademaker

fecit). Abraham Rademaker was a well-known topographical draughtsman of the late seventeenth and earlier eighteenth century

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