About This Artwork

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Dutch, 1606-1669

Cottage Beside a Canal, c. 1650-53

Pen and brown ink, with touches of brush and brown wash, on cream laid paper (discolored to tan)
149 x 248 mm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1953.37

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Bern, "Rembrandt," 1937, cat. 195.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, "Rembrandt," August 8-October 21, 1956, cat. 172; traveled to the Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, May 18-August 5, 1956.

Cambridge, Mass., The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections," April 27-May 29, 1960; traveled to New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, March 15-April 16, 1960.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Isntitute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 29, as "Cottage Beside a Canal."

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, "Rembrandt 1669/1969," September 13-November 30, 1969, cat. 74.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Rembrandt's Landscapes: Drawings and Prints," March 11-May 20, 1990.

Boston, Mass., the Museum of Fine Art Boston, "Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher," October 26, 2003-January 18, 2004; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, February 14-May 9, 2004.

Publication History

E. Michel, Rembrandt (Paris, 1893), p. 584.

E. Dutuit, Tableaux et Dessins de Rembrandt, Supplement (Paris, 1885), p. 114.

C. Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts (Haarlem, 1906), no. 954.

Societé de Reproduction des Dessins de Maîtres, V (Paris, 1913), no. 30 (ill.).

Frits Lugt, Bredius Feest-Bundel (Amsterdam, 1915), pl. 51 (ill.).

Frits Lugt, Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam (Berlin, 1920), pp. 5-6 (ill.).

Eva Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung (Vienna, 1935), p. 57.

Harold Joachim, "Three Drawings by Rembrandt," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 48 (1954), p. 11 (ill.).

Eva Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt (London, 1957), no. 1297 (ill.).

Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time (New York, 1962), no. 592 (ill.).

William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection (Cambridge, 2002).

Nathan Goldstein and Harriet J. Fishman, Drawing to See (Upper Saddle, N.J., 2004), pp. 34-35 and 37, fig. 2.8.

Ownership History

Jan Pieteresz Zoomer (died 1724), Amsterdam [Lugt 1511]. Baron Jan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen (died 1845), The Hague [Lugt 2490]. Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon (died 1882), Amsterdam [Lugt 1450]; sold, Amsterdam, May 22-24, 1883, lot 393. Sir Francis Seymour Haden (died 1910), London [Lugt 1227]; sold, Sotheby's, London, May 15, 1891, lot 571, to Frederick Keppel [according to a letter from Richard Zinser in curatorial file]. Alfred Strolin, Lausanne, by 1920 [Lugt 1920]; sold to the Art Institute, 1953.