Rembrandt regularly drew outdoors in and around Amsterdam. This is the only known drawing for which he used oiled charcoal. At this time Amsterdam still had city walls with triangular fortifications. On each of these stood a windmill and a few houses and sheds. The fortification shown here stood roughly where nowadays the train enters the city on the northwest. In the background we can see the River IJ.
Specifications
| Title | Windmill on the Bastion Blauwhoofd in Amsterdam |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Oiled charcoal on brown tinted paper, framing lines with the pen in brown ink, gone over in pencil on the right side |
| Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 166 mm Width 275 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Draughtsman:
Rembrandt van Rijn
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| Accession number | R 26 (PK) |
| Credits | Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1940 |
| Creation date | in circa 1640-1650 |
| Collector | Collector / Franz Koenigs |
| Internal exhibitions |
Rembrandt in Rotterdam (2005) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Rembrandt van Rijn
Leiden 1606 - Amsterdam 1669
Rembrandt van Rijn was born in Leiden. After his apprenticeship, during which he studied with various painters including Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, he started...
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