Landscape with a Cottage and Hay Barn: Oblong is a 1641 ink by Rembrandt, a Baroque work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing is a quiet countryside scene. A small house with a thatched roof sits near a hay barn, both surrounded by bushes and a muddy path. In the background, a church tower rises above flat fields. A person walks along the path, and another stands near the barn, while a horse and cart rest under a makeshift shelter. The artist used fine lines to show light and shadow, giving the scene depth. This is an etching, which means the image was scratched into a metal plate and then inked. Check out etching to see how artists create prints this way.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
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