Lot Essay
The traditional title of this landscape persists but the subject has been convincingly identified as a view at Ouderkerk on the Amstel near Amsterdam taken from the Klein-Kostverloren Estate which in 1645 belonged to Albert Coenraadsz. Burgh, one of the Burgomasters of Amsterdam.
Gersaint's apocryphal story on Rembrandt's wager with Jan Six should really be seen as a reflection on the critical appreciation of the spontaneous sketch-like quality of the etched line, which is here employed by Rembrandt on a wide open sheet to convey the sense of a summer's light.
Gersaint's apocryphal story on Rembrandt's wager with Jan Six should really be seen as a reflection on the critical appreciation of the spontaneous sketch-like quality of the etched line, which is here employed by Rembrandt on a wide open sheet to convey the sense of a summer's light.