Deep black, but displaying harmoniously balanced differentiation of burr effects, especially in the bushes and grasses in the foreground. With a light plate tone that becomes intensified almost imperceptibly along the edges.

Printed on paper with the countermark “LB” as specifically referenced by Hinterding.

With a paper margin measuring ca. 2 cm running continuously around the inky plate mark, through which the composition acquires a virtually singular sense of perfenc cohesion.

The rare flawless overall condition of this sheet is further enhanced by its provenance from the first-class Rembrandt collection of H. H. Benedict, which according to Lugt was of d’un qualité exceptionelle…

Produced in 1648, the same year as the Saint Jerome beside the Pollard Willow, the Cottage with a White Paling is regarded as an artistic link that forms a transition from Rembrandt’s early landscape etchings to the late masterworks.