Etcher unfolds the richness and diversity of Rembrandt's career as an etcher in the context of his paintings and drawings. Illustrated with some 2oo works in all three media, this book traces the remarkable evolution of Rembrandt's art over four decades,from the robust physical energy of his early productions to the breadth, simplicity, and meditative beauty of his later work.

Rembrandt changed the course of art history not only as a painter, but also as a draftsman and printmaker. His output of nearly 30o etchings represents a lifelong commitment to printmaking unequaled by any other seventeenth-century painter, and comparable only to Picasso in our own time.Rembrandt's Journey: Painter" Drafisman " Etcher unfolds the richness and diversity of Rembrandt's career as an etcher in the context of his paintings and drawings. Illustrated with some 2oo works in all three media, this book traces the remarkable evolution of Rembrandt's art over four decades,from the robust physical energy of his early productions to the breadth, simplicity, and meditative beauty of his later work. It establishes new and important connections among these works and among the three media that the artist explored throughout his career. It encompasses the wide range of his vision, from the tragic and spiritual to the earthy and comic. And it gives full due to Rembrandt's narrative sensibilities, showing how he endowed his figures (particularly in biblical scenes) with unprecedented psychological nuance and vividness. Published to accompany the first comprehensive American survey of his work in decades, Rembrandt's Journey offers a fresh, authoritative view of this endlessly familiar, yet still unknown, artist.

Directors' Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rembrandt's Artistic Journey

CLIFFORD S. ACKLEY

Rembrandt as Actor and Dramatist: Gesture and Body Language in the Biblical Etchings

CLIFFORD S. ACKLEY

Rembrandt's Oil Sketches

RONNI BAER

Looking over Rembrandt's Shoulder:

The Printmaker at Work

THOMAS E. RASSIEUR

Catalogue

CLIFFORD S. ACKLEY, THOMAS E. RASSIEUR

SUE WELSH REED~ AND WILLIAM W. ROBINSON

Use of the Catalogue

Exhibition List

KATE HARPER AND THOMAS E. RASSIEUR

Chronology

JOANNA KARLGAARD AND THOMAS E. RASSIEUR

Materials and Techniques

DEBORAH LA CAMERA, RHONA MACBETH,

AND KIMBERLY NICHOLS

References

KATE HARPER