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Rembrandt Van Riyn "Millennium Edition 2007 - Landscape with CowComes with Certificate of Authenticity.
Even centuries after his lifetime, Rembrandt's etchings are still considered some of the finest examples of the medium.Following Rembrandt's passing in 1669, his remaining copper etching plates virtually stayed intact as they passed from collector to collector until 1993 when a sale at the London Original Print Fair dispersed the plates around the globe.
Following the 1993 sale, collector Howard Berger acquired eight of the plates. He then teamed with master printers Emiliano Sorini and Marjorie Van Dyke to pull impressions from Rembrandt's original copper plates.
Landscape with a Cow Drinking is believed that in this peaceful pastoral image, Rembrandt combined the landscape in the foreground...showing the countryside surrounding Amsterdam with a series of mountains in the distance taken from a location hundreds of miles away.
To achieve the atmospheric quality found in this etching. Rembrandt employed very delicate linework created with a fine-etching needle. Around the time of the creation of this etching plate (ca.1650), Rembrandt's financial status began to deteriorate and grow desperate, and he was unable to make his mortgage and tax payment any longer. Scholars often suggest that this etching and other landscapes of the period may reflect his desire to be transported to peaceful and idyllic places far away from his troubles.
