Christ and the Woman of Samaria
by REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn, Oil on canvas, 60 x 75 cm
Catalogue number: Bredius 592A.
Before Rembrandt began to etch and draw the outdoors, he painted it into the backgrounds of his history paintings. This went on into the 1640s and 1650s, but it came to an end at the very time when he stopped drawing landscape. After the present painting, none of his histories are situated in a natural setting.