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Start with the diagonal lines of rain at upper left, then hunt for the fisherman by the water and the couple hidden in the bushes at lower right.
The Three Trees of 1643 is Rembrandt’s largest landscape print, made with etching and drypoint. Three trees stand on a rise under a breaking storm, with rain slanting in at the left, while flat land stretches away to a distant town. The people are tiny: a fisherman and his companion, herders with their cattle, two figures on the far hill and a couple embracing in a hidden bower.
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper · Sheet trimmed within platemark: 20.9 × 28.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- The Three Trees
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606-1669
- Date
- 1643
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet trimmed within platemark: 20.9 × 28.1 cm (8 1/4 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1606–1669
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.