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The ''Goldweigher's Field'' is a 1651 etching by 
It was mistakenly named after the so-called home of the ''Goldweigher'', a portrait that Rembrandt etched, but shows in fact the Saxenburg estate of Bloemendaal with the
File:B281 Rembrandt.jpg, Portrait of Jan Wtenbogaert, a.k.a. ''The Gold-Weigher'', Rembrandt, 1639
File:Rembrandt 237.jpg, Drawing ''View of Haarlem with the Saxenburg Estate in the Foreground'', in Boijmans van Beuningen
The painter
Explanation of Rembrandt's viewpoint while sketching this scene
{{Rembrandt Prints by Rembrandt History of Haarlem 1651 in art
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally consid ...
now held by many museums, including the British Museum, the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
, The Morgan Library & Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is based on a landscape drawing in the collection of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
It was mistakenly named after the so-called home of the ''Goldweigher'', a portrait that Rembrandt etched, but shows in fact the Saxenburg estate of Bloemendaal with the St. Bavochurch
The Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk is a Reformed Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located on the central market square ( Grote Markt) in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Another Haarlem church called the Cathedral of Saint Bavo now serves ...
of Haarlem in the distance. The owner of the Saxenburg estate at that time was Christoffel Thijs, the man who sold Rembrandt his house in Amsterdam (today's Rembrandt House Museum
The Rembrandt House Museum ( nl, Museum Het Rembrandthuis) is a museum located in a former house in the Jodenbreestraat, in the center of Amsterdam. Between 1639 and 1658, the house was occupied by the well-known Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn ...
). The perspective is taken from the high dunes of Bloemendaal and shows the mirror image of the drawing.
Philips Koninck
Philip de Koninck, or Philips Koninck (5 November 1619 – 4 October 1688 was a Dutch landscape painter and younger brother of Jacob Koninck.
painted a ''Haerlempje
''Haerlempjes'' refer to a specific genre of landscape painting that includes a view of Haarlem (formerly spelled ''Haerlem''). It is used most often to refer to Jacob van Ruisdael's panoramic views of the city, but the term is derived from ment ...
'' showing the Saxenburg estate with bleachfields, and this painting shows that the field that Rembrandt depicted was used in the summer months by a bleachery. The steeple between the estate on the left and the Haarlem St. Bavochurch
The Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk is a Reformed Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located on the central market square ( Grote Markt) in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Another Haarlem church called the Cathedral of Saint Bavo now serves ...
in the distance is the Bloemendaal church, which is also visible in the Rembrandt etching and still exists. Saxenburg itself was torn down.
See also
*List of drawings by Rembrandt
The following is a list of drawings by Rembrandt that are generally accepted as autograph.
See also
*List of paintings by Rembrandt
*List of etchings by Rembrandt
*Rembrandt's Mughal drawings
In his late career in the 1650s, the Dutch artist ...
* List of etchings by Rembrandt
The following is a list of etchings by the Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt, with the catalogue numbers of Adam Bartsch.
Each change or addition to the plate that can be seen in a print is referred to as a 'state' of the print.
See also
*List ...
References
Explanation of Rembrandt's viewpoint while sketching this scene
{{Rembrandt Prints by Rembrandt History of Haarlem 1651 in art