For nearly twenty years, Rembrandt painted landscapes from time to time, but apparently, after 1654, he left this occupation. What we know about his business suggests that this decision may have been caused by a lack of demand for landscapes. In this genre, Rembrandt also created many drawings and engravings, which we especially admire.
Of all the landscapes, this one is imbued with a special freshness, as if it was made in the open air, although this does not mean that it was created in one session – they began to write like this only in the XIX century. Sketches may have been made in the open air, but then the picture was refined in the workshop. This landscape, apparently, is a preliminary sketch: it is small in size and written in a remarkably relaxed manner, in broad strokes, which gives the work so much appreciated immediacy now.
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