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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hout, belonged herself to a family of no great importance. But by her marriage with one of those heroic sailors who contributed so largely to the glory and prosperity of Holland, she had been admitted to the most distinguished society of Amsterdam. Thanks to a robust constitution, she retained the vigour and dignity so admirably rendered by the master to an advanced age. Born in 1571, she appears to have been from seventy-two to seventy-five years old when the portrait was painted. The character of the execution also points to the approximate date to which we think the portrait may be assigned, viz. 1643-1646. It is a three-quarters length of an old lady, seated, and facing the spectator. Her black dress is marked by the subdued elegance proper to her rank and age. A closely-fitting white cap with semi-circular ear-pieces surrounds the face, showing the roots of the hair in front, and the whiteness of the large gauffere d Portrait of Elizabeth Bas (about r64s)- (AMSTERDAM RYKSMUSEUM.)
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hard PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH BAS 307 ruff is mitigated by the pronounced shadow cast by the head. In spiteof her yellow complexion and parchment skin, the old ladys bearingis still erect and stately. On a table covered with a green clothbeside her, lies a large clasped book, doubtless a Bible. She seemsto have just closed it, and to be meditating on what she has read.The small deep-set eyes twinkle keenly under the drooping lids, withan expression denoting a profound knowledge of life ; the strongly-marked chin, the thin, compressed lips, proclaim a firm will andenergetic character. The vigorous contours, sharply defined againstthe neutral background, the close, incisive drawing, the truth of themodelling, the decision of the accents, the extreme frankness of theintonations, even the choice of attitude, all combine to suggest theindividuality of the sitter. These qualities in the painters handiworkreflect her simplicity and uprightness, her good sense and moral vigour,the indefinable ai

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