The Three Trees

Art Institute of Chicago

The Three Trees

Rembrandt van Rijn

Date
1643
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Culture
Holland
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Rembrandt’s masterful Three Trees is the artist’s largest landscape print, an atmospheric etching and drypoint creation that epitomizes the ever-changing drama of the outdoors. In the face of nature, the human element is reduced to a group of miniscule figures, including a fisherman and his uninterested female companion on the left, various cowherds, and two distant figures on the hills beyond. An elegantly attired couple embrace tenderly in a private bower on the lower right, seeking companionship as well as shelter against the coming storm.

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