Search results for: “rembrandt etchings”
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt etching of farm scene with a man sketching
Cottages and Farm Building with a Man Sketching, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Etching, roughly 5 x 8 in. (13 x 21 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image on their site. Remarkable though they may be, Rembrandt’s etchings of Biblical scenes…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt portrait etching and preliminary painting
Portrait of Ephraim Bueno, Physician, Rembrandt van Rijn; etching & drypoint; roughly 8 x 7 inches (21 x 18 cm) Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, original is in the Jewish Museum, New York, which has a downloadable version. Portrait of a Man, thought to be Dr. Ephraïm Bueno, Rembrandt, oil on…
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Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery, London
Rembrandt: The Late Works is a landmark exhibition of paintings, drawings and etchings of the 17th century Dutch master on view at the National Gallery, London, until 18 January 2015. There are some great works in the exhibition, including the two remarkable self-portraits I recently highlighted here and here, along with other masterpieces. Among the…
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Anders Zorn’s etchings
In my post on the paintings of the terrific Swedish artist Anders Zorn back in March of this year, I promised to follow up with a post on his amazing etchings. I just love etchings, they have a line quality and visual charm unlike any other medium. There are three artists at the very top…
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Eye Candy for today: Rembrandt’s Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan, Rembrandt van Rijn OK, so the defecating dog was a source of some amusement back in art school, but once you get past that, this etching is just mind-bogglingly superb — a tour-de-force of drawing and the mediums of etching and drypoint. This was made after one of Rembrandt’s own paintings (though…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape drawing
Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood, Rembrandt van Rijn. If I were writing an illustrated dictionary of art terms, next to “economy of notation” I would have one of Rembrandt’s drawings. Interestingly, for an artist whose paintings were primarily portraiture, many of Rembrandt’s etchings, and a high percentage of the drawings apparently done for…