In the final video of our series on Rembrandt Emerges, AGA Collections Manager and Curatorial Associate Danielle guides us through some of the remarkable prints from the exhibition.
Image featured:
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Trees, 1643, etching with drypoint and engraving on paper, modern impression. University of Alberta Museums Art Collection, 1976.17.2.
‘Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges’ was curated by Dr. Jacquelyn N. Coutré, organized and circulated by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University, with the support of the Isabel and Alfred Bader Fund of Bader Philanthropies, Inc. and the Government of Canada.In the final video of our series on Rembrandt Emerges, AGA Collections Manager and Curatorial Associate Danielle guides us through some of the remarkable prints from the exhibition.
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Rembrandt emerges
Rembrandt emerges
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Rembrandt emerges
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Printmaking
Printmaking
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Printmaking
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Landscape
Landscape
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Landscape
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Outro
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Introduction
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hi everyone my name is Danielle and I’m
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the collections manager and curatorial
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associate at the aga today we’re looking
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at our final work in our tour of Leiden
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circa 1630 Rembrandt emerges now this is
Rembrandt emerges
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a Rembrandt print that was not
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originally part of the exhibition but
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that we added for the presentation here
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in Edmonton it’s part of five prints
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that we borrowed from the University of
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Alberta museum’s collection so these
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really showcase Rembrandt’s later
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printmaking when he was established in
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Amsterdam and they highlight some of the
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Rembrandt’s that we have in our very own
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City of Edmonton printmaking was really
Printmaking
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the main source of Rembrandt’s
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international fame in his lifetime
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prints were reproducible relatively
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inexpensive and can travel easily
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meaning they could reach a wider
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geographical market so Rembrandt not
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only used prints to copy his paintings
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and promote his paintings but he
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actually created original works of art
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in print he started experimenting with
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printmaking when he lived in Leiden in
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the latter half of the 1620s and it’s
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unclear where he would have learned so
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people speculate that he was largely
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self-taught but clearly he would have
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been looking at older Dutch and Flemish
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masters as well as learning from other
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print makers in the city such as Yan Van
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Vleet this print was made in 1643 and it
Landscape
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is an example of his mature and unique
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technique which combined itching also
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with engraving and drypoint
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to achieve a range of effects it’s also
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an example of landscape which we have
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yet to see in this exhibition
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Rembrandt didn’t really start
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introducing landscape into his work
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until about 1640 so while he would often
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draw his landscapes outside in the
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countryside surrounding appt stirred am
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usually has metal plates for etching
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we’re done in the studio and are kind of
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poetic inventions of what he would have
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seen outdoors so this work is really a
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marvelous example of light and dark we
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on the left-hand side you’ll see these
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billowing clouds and
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rain storm falling down on the right
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hand side the landscape is basked and
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light so you have this sense of an
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impending summer storm or maybe a summer
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storm that’s rolling away as you look
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closer at the work you’ll see it’s
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dotted with human presence on the
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left-hand side you have a man fishing
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and a companion perhaps his wife who
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appears rather uninterested up on the
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sunny hill you have an artist sketching
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and down in the dark foreground bushes
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which you might not even be able to see
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in the film but a couple two figures
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embracing seeking some refuge in the in
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the dark bushes and then in the
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background on the horizon is a town I
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remember I was really interested in the
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border between cities and the
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countryside and really he was quite
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interested in the effects of a
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burgeoning industrial economy on the
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sublimity of nature this is our final
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stop in our virtual tour of the
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exhibition Leiden circus 1630 Rembrandt
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emerges I hope you’ve enjoyed it and if
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you have any questions at all or want to
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see images of any other artworks please
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send us an email or leave us comments in
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