Identifier: rembrandthislife01mich (find matches)
Title: Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Michel, Emile, 1828-1909 Simmonds, Florence Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921
Subjects: Rembrandt Hermanszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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h red velvet is worn overa dress of pale yellow. A white coif hides her hair, after thefashion then prevalent among Jewish women. A mild light glanceson the border of the robe, the top of the hat, the book, and thehand resting upon it, in which every wrinkle is carefully reproduced.The relation of this cold light to the coloured shadows is renderedwith absolute truth, and the deep purple of the mantle forms abeautiful harmony with the gray tints of the fur, and of the neutralbackground against which the figure is set. A reversed plate of this portrait was engraved by Van Vliet(B. 18), and Lievens gives a free rendering of the features intwo etchings (B. Nos. 30 and 40), in neither of which, however,has he been very careful to preserve the likeness. Gerard Dou,on the other hand, has drawn her with all his accustomed precision ;in six of his pictures at least we recognise the old lady at a glance. Study for the Old Man Studying B. r#Q.(about 162c—-i6ja). Red Chalk ami Wask (LOU van. )
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•3 a PORTRAITS OF REMBRANDTS FATHER 4i One of these is in the Louvre, the Reading Woman (No. 2356 inthe new Catalogue); two in the Dresden Museum (Nos. 1719 and1720); another at Berlin (No. 847); a fifth in the SchwerinMuseum (No. 326), the Woman with the Spinning-wheel ; and thelast, of which we shall have more to say presently, in the CasselMuseum (No. 234). Bearing in mind Rembrandts practice of taking his modelsfrom members of thehousehold, we naturallylook for numerous por-traits of his father amonghis works. But down tothe present time their iden-tification has been basedmerely on hypothesesmore or less plausible. Not long ago, Mr.Middleton-Wake, who hasmade a special study ofRembrandts etched work,gave it as his opinion thatRembrandts father wasprobably the original ofthe Old Man with along beard, and fur-trimmed cap (B. 262), oneof the best of the earlyplates. In my attempts to classify the studies executed by Rembrandtand his friends at this period, I was struck by the freq

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