63 REMBRANDT Rembrandt here eloquently captures the architecture of the Dutch landscape, with HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN its flatness and expansive horizontality, punctuated by a lone sailboat. Anchoring the Dutch, 1606­1669 composition in the left foreground is a mass of bulrushes. A breeze blows toward the A Sailing Boat on a Wide Expanse right, animating the rushes, gently tilting the sailboat, and reinforcing the spatial sweep (View of the Nieuwe Meer?) of the vista that opens out. The eye follows ripples on the water, a spit of land, a house, Pen and brown ink and brown wash and other features into the distance until discernible elements dissolve into a cluster on light­brown tinted paper 8.9 x 18.2 cm (3½ x 7 3/16 in.) of suggestive dots on the horizon. Bracketing the deepest segment of the vista are Cat. I, no. 117; 85.GA.94 the rushes and the sailboat. The spatial complexity of the scene is increased by the combination of deep recession with a heightened effect of lateral expansion. The beauty of execution and the cateful calibration of the composition suggest that this drawing of about 1650 was made as a finished work of art. DUTCH AND FLEMISH SCHOOLS 79