The Three Trees, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1643
Rembrandt van Rijn, portraitRembrandt van RijnDutch, 1606–1669

The Three Trees

1643 · Print

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Where is “The Three Trees” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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About the work

Rembrandt’s masterful Three Trees is the artist’s largest landscape print, an atmospheric etching and drypoint creation that epitomizes the ever-changing drama of the outdoors. In the face of nature, the human element is reduced to a group of miniscule figures, including a fisherman and his uninterested female companion on the left, various cowherds, and two distant figures on the hills beyond. An elegantly attired couple embrace tenderly in a private bower on the lower right, seeking companionship as well as shelter against the coming storm.

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Accession number
1938.1811

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In the life of Rembrandt van Rijn

The whole life
  1. 1631–1669 · Workplace

    Amsterdam

  2. 1636–1641

    Pupil: Ferdinand Bol

  3. 1639–1658 · Residence

    Rembrandt House Museum

  4. 1641

    Birth of His Son Titus

    In 1641 Rembrandt and Saskia's son Titus was born — the only one of their four children to survive infancy.

  5. 22 September 1641

    Son born: Titus van Rijn

  6. 1642

    Death of Saskia

    Saskia died in 1642, probably of tuberculosis, a year after Titus's birth. Rembrandt's drawings of her on her sickbed are among his most deeply felt works.

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