The Three Trees
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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.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Details
- Maker
- 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.)
- Place of origin
- Holland
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
