The Mill is a painting by Dutch baroque artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

It is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

[1] For a long time, the attribution to Rembrandt was regarded as doubtful; it has been restored in recent years, although it is not universally accepted.

Beside a broad moat, high above the circular scarp of a ruined bastion, stands a windmill with some low cottages.

The path from the mill leads, on the left, over a little bridge across a sluice, to a landing-post in the foreground.

A woman with a child goes down to the water; a man pushes a barrow upwards.

In the centre foreground a woman at the water's edge is washing linen.

To the right on the farther bank, amid dense groves of trees, are some cows, and beyond them a cottage.

The last rays of the sun illumine the right half of the sky and envelop the mill in their radiant glow.

[4]The painting features a tonal arrangement in which the upraised vane of the windmill is light against a dark sky.