Although Rembrandt used extensive landscape settings in several of his early biblical and, more particularly, mythological pictures, he only took up landscape painting proper for the first time in the late 1630s. (By this term is meant paintings in which the landscape is the main subject, not necessarily paintings without figures.) He probably produced fewer than a dozen landscapes in oils altogether and seems to have given up the practice after 1650. In drawings and etchings, his landscapes formed a higher proportion of the total but these too were confined to the middle twenty years of his career.
Summary of works by Rembrandt |
Paintings |
New Testament subjects | until 1639 | 1640s | 1650-60s |
Passion of Christ | Old Testament subjects |
Mythological subjects | Historical subjects |
Portraits | until 1632 | 1633-39 | 1640s | 1650s | 1660s |
Group portraits | Self-portraits |
Landscapes | Miscellaneous subjects |
Paintings in the style of Rembrandt (not by Rembrandt) |
Graphics |
Etchings | Drawings |