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 GOOD SAMARITAr*. Pen drawing (Berlin Print Room). the Gospel narrative casts a furtive backward glance at the suffererhe has left to perish. The harmony, made up of warm browns, yellows,and russets, is sustained and powerful, and the somewhat harshexecution broad and free. In the Louvre picture, painted some nineyears later, as in a beautiful and most luminous sketch purchased byM. Sedelmeyer,^ Rembrandt returns to his first conception. But hisartistic progress may be measured by the modifications to which hehas subjected his composition. The sun is sinking, and the dying rayslight up the group at the door, where the wounded man is lifted 1 Formerly in Mr. Henry Willetts collection. It is a night-scene, the actiontaking place by torchlight, which gives occasion for various happy effects of chiaro-scuro.
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rH id CHRIST WITH THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS 53 from the horse amidst the excited spectators of his arrival, and borneto the inn. His saviour, purse in hand, recommends him to the careof the hostess. How can we more fitlv describe the scene than inthe eloquent words of Fromentin .^— the man is barely alive; his

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