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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ce, and the angelic apparition, as he softly approachesJoseph, illumines the miserable shed in which the travellers have takenrefuge. The pendant, Tobit s Wife with the Kid, of which there is asketch in the Albertina, is a charming creation. It has deterioratedto a certain extent, unfortunately, like so many other works in theCrown collections of Prussia, which have suffered from the neglectwith which they were treated in the royal residences, where they 1 Other painters of the period, notably Jan Steen and Dou, used the same motive onseveral occasions- BIBLICAL COMPOSITIONS 301 formerly hung. But in spite of this, the limpid quality of the light,and the delicacy of the execution recall like characteristics in thePhilosophers of the Louvre, save that the handling is freer in theBerlin picture. Two more important compositions of this period were also inspiredby the Scriptures : Baron de Steengrachts Bathsheba, at the Hague,signed, and dated 1643, anc^ ^e Wo?nan taken in Adultery of the
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THE ANGEL APPEARING TO ST. JOSEPH.Pen drawing (Berlin Print Rooml. National Gallery, signed Rembrandt, and dated 1644. In the former,the master returns to the motive of the Susanna painted six years before.Bathsheba has just emerged from the bath ; sitting on an Eastern rugthrown over the edge of a raised terrace, she busies herself with hertoilet. A golden ewer and basin are placed beside her. Her left handis laid upon her breast, her right on the linen drapery across herlegs. An old woman in a brown and violet dress, and a black hoodwith a gold embroidered veil, holds her right foot, and pares her nails. 3o2 REMBRANDT An attendant behind her combs her long fair hair. The figure ofBathsheba, with its delicate features and graceful limbs, recalls Saskia,but the contours, their elegance fully displayed by the attitude, areslenderer and more refined than hers. In the background lofty buildingsare set against a deep blue sky, and a flight of wide steps leads downto the bath. On a high te

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