Prints
Hundreds of thousands of prints — etchings, engravings, lithographs, and woodcuts spanning five centuries. Notable for Rembrandt etchings, Dutch popular prints, and broad European graphic art.
Where Rembrandt was every bit the equal of his paintings.
n the Dutch Republic the printed image did double duty: fine art for collectors, cheap news for everyone else. Its greatest practitioner treated the etched line with the same daring he brought to oil. Rembrandt's prints are not studies; they are masterpieces at pocket scale.
Lean in to the bitten line of a Rembrandt etching, the moralizing emblems of Jan Luyken, the topical sheets that informed and inflamed. Hundreds of thousands of impressions, recording five centuries of what Europe wanted to look at.
