Description
In Landscape with Trees, Farm Buildings, and a Tower, Rembrandt places a farmhouse toward the center-right, distant architecture at the far right and foliage at the left. A gray cloud line crosses the broader setting. Rembrandt gives the countryside a sequence of forms rather than one isolated focal object, allowing nearer growth, farm architecture and the distant vertical landmark to establish different scales of attention.
The etching and drypoint dates from around 1651. Trees, farm buildings and a tower give the countryside different kinds of vertical and horizontal emphasis, allowing the eye to move through the setting rather than stop at one isolated landmark. Rembrandt brings human structures into relationship with their surroundings, making the landscape absorbing through differences of scale, placement and the intervals between its forms.
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