The Three Trees
- Date
- 1643
- Material
- Etching, drypoint, and engraving
- made in
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland province, Netherlands, Europe
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 8 5/16 x 10 15/16 in. (21.1 x 27.8 cm)
sheet (irregular): 8 7/16 x 11 1/8 in. (21.4 x 28.3 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 161:2011
NOTES
Three trees at the center of this composition draw the viewer’s eye as a wealth of activity unfolds around them. A bird in flight bursts out of the tree at left, and wagons, farmers, and livestock dot the low-lying fields in the middle ground. Closer at hand, a man and woman fish quietly on one side of a pond. Deeply buried in the foliage along the opposite bank a pair of lovers, almost invisible to the naked eye, flirt in the darkness.
Rembrandt van Rijn explored and celebrated the countryside of his native Netherlands. "The Three Trees" is the most elaborate of his landscape prints, rivaling the status of a painting with its ambitious composition and exceptional execution.
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