Rembrandt van Rijn

Although I've written about Rembrandt, to study his etchings it's not unavailing. Over 300 pieces of his etching-oeuvre are almost seems to exhaust all possibilities, from drawing like pen sketches to the well edited pictorial compositions, from the prints with clean white backgrounds to the tonal ones.


St. Gerome (unfinished), 1653
etching, paper
297 × 277 mm



A beggar sitting on a hillock, 1630
etching, paper
115 × 70 mm


A woman sitting upon a hillock, 1631
etching, paper
176 × 170 mm


Rembrandt's mill, 1641
etching, paper
144 × 207 mm


The portrait of Jan Six, 1647
etching, paper
297 × 277 mm

Antiope and Jupiter, 1659
etching, paper
140 × 205 mm



Image and text source: www.rembrandtpainting.net, www.mke.hu