Rembrandt van Rijn
Six’s Bridge
1645
Physical Qualities
Etching and drypoint, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 129 x 233 mm. (5 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Abigail Rome in Honor of Zalman Schocken
Object Number
2015.84
In Six’s Bridge Rembrandt used a remarkable economy of means to render a view of the flat, Dutch countryside punctuated by a tangle of trees at left and the mast of a sailboat at right. Indeed, Rembrandt probably began this composition outside, sketching directly from nature with an etching needle into the waxy, acid-resistant ground that covered his small copper plate. After returning to his studio Rembrandt finished the composition, making small changes to enhance it. For example, to draw our attention to the two figures leaning over the bridge, he darkened their hats.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2015; Abigail Rome, Silver Spring, MD
BMA, "After Rembrandt: The Influence of Dutch Art on Nineteenth- Century French Printmaking," 12 February - 13 April 1997.
BMA, Jacobs rotation, 7 July - 22 December 2015.
BMA, Jacobs rotation, 7 July - 22 December 2015.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "Rembrandt f 1645"
Markings: CM: Albertina (Lugt 5f) WM: Arms of Amsterdam
