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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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study, in a care-fully considered work.As in the precedingexamples, the head,turned three-quarters tothe spectator, and illu-mined by a strong lightfrom the left, is setagainst a neutral graybackground of mediumvalue. The carnationsare very brilliant, andare modelled with ex-treme skill in a full im-pasto, following the sur-faces as we shall find itdoing continually moreand more in Rembrandtspractice. The shadows,though intense, preservetheir transparency. Adark gray dress, anda somewhat crumpledwhite collar turned over a steel gorget, blend into pleasant harmony with the head. The typeis that of Cassel and Gotha, but slenderer and more refined. Thereis more distinction in the bearing, greater elegance in the dress. Thefeatures are irregular but the fresh lips seem about to open, the smalleyes gaze from under their prominent brows with a frank fearlessness,while between them we already see that vertical fold which habits ofceaseless observation deepened more and more as years went by.
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THE MONEY-CHANGER. (Fragment of the picture in the Berlin Museum.) 26 REMBRANDT This youthful head, crowned by the flowing hair that falls in massesacross the forehead, charms us by its air of health, simplicity, andunstudied grace. It is instinct with power and intelligence, and withan indescribable aspect of authority, which explains the ascendency theyoung man was soon to obtain over the minds of his contemporaries.Simultaneously with these pictures, Rembrandt evidently produced alarge number of drawings. But, unfortunately, most of these are eitherlost or scattered in different collections under false attributions. Veryfew are known to us. One is a sketch in black chalk, belonging to theHamburg Museum. The subject is the head of a youth, resemblingRembrandt himself, with a very brilliant effect of light. Another, inthe British Museum, is a sketch in Indian ink, made with a few strokesof the brush. It represents the artist in a braided tunic, and isreproduced in an etching of 1629.

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