Identifier: rembrandthislife00mich (find matches)
Title: Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Michel, Emile, 1828-1909 Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921
Subjects: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Publisher: London : Heinemann New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE GROTTO. 1645 (B. 231). REMBRANDTS ETCHED LANDSCAPES 241 about 1635, we note, side by side with trees the foHage of whichis singularly tame and uniform in rendering, an old willow-stumpintroduced by the master in his etching St. Jerome (1648, B. 103), andlater in the St. Francis (1657, B. 107). It also figures to the leftin the Vieiu of Omval (B. 209). He was encouraged in suchstudies by his perception of the great advantages to be derived fromthem in future pictures. Etchings made from such sketches, ordrawn from nature on the copper, become more and more numerous,
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THE THREE TREES. 1643 (B. 213). attesting both his delight In the work and the rapid progress resultingtherefrom. The first pure landscape among Rembrandts etchings, the Land-scape zuit/i a Cozu, dated 1634 (B. 206), is rejected by Mr. Middleton-Wake, though duly signed with the monogram used by the master atthe period. I see no reason whatever, for my own part, to suspect theauthenticity of the plate, which, though unimportant, is closely alliedin execution to other etchings of the same date. Two undatedlandscapes may perhaps be assigned to about 1640 ; one, the Landscapewith a House and a large Tree by it (B. 207), is of little interest ; theoihcr, the View of Amsterdam (B. 210), is remarkable for its deli-cate workmanship, and for the skill with which Rembrandt has ex-pressed the gradual reduction of the planes, conjuring up infinitespace on a narrow strip of ()apcr. I am once more at a loss 242 REMBRANDT to imagine why Mr, Middleton-Wake contests the authenticity ofthe Large Lands

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