Rare Rembrandt drawings on display at North Carolina museum

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, ‘Landscape with Canal and Boats,’ (circa 1655), pen and brown ink with brown wash, 4 1/16 by 8in. The Peck collection, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.1.67
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, ‘Landscape with Canal and Boats,’ (circa 1655), pen and brown ink with brown wash, 4 1/16 by 8in. The Peck collection, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.1.67
Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669, ‘Landscape with Canal and Boats,’ (circa 1655), pen and brown ink with brown wash, 4 1/16 by 8in. The Peck collection, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.1.67

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – After years of anticipation, a collection of rarely exhibited drawings by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is now on display at the Ackland Art Museum. The Ackland’s newest exhibit, Drawn to Life: Master Drawings from the Age of Rembrandt in the Peck Collection includes dozens of 17th- and 18th-century drawings by Dutch and Flemish artists, including five sketches by Rembrandt, who died in 1669.

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