Six’s Bridge, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1645
etching, h 129mm × w 224mm More details
According to tradition, this landscape depicts a view from Jan Six’s country estate on the River Bullewijk near Ouderkerk. Rembrandt would have drawn it on the spot directly into the etching ground while he and Six were waiting for a servant to fetch a pot of mustard. The style suggests that Rembrandt, in any case, did work rapidly. Moreover, it tells us that he went about with prepared copperplates.
