. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. man, who places a wreath offlowers on the head of a young woman seated beside him in theshadow, appears to the left of the willow-stump already mentioned.^Working over the original sketch in part, Rembrandt incorporatedit with the delicate background to the right, where he has introduceda village, supposed to be Omval, the houses, workshops, windmills, ^ This plate is signed Rembrandt^ iike the Abraham with his son Isaac, a work of thesame year (1645). R 2 244 REMBRANDT and boats of which are picturesquely disposed along the skilful bl
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. man, who places a wreath offlowers on the head of a young woman seated beside him in theshadow, appears to the left of the willow-stump already mentioned.^Working over the original sketch in part, Rembrandt incorporatedit with the delicate background to the right, where he has introduceda village, supposed to be Omval, the houses, workshops, windmills, ^ This plate is signed Rembrandt^ iike the Abraham with his son Isaac, a work of thesame year (1645). R 2 244 REMBRANDT and boats of which are picturesquely disposed along the skilful blending of the two sections conceals the fact of theirhaving been brought together by an afterthought, to disguise whichthe reeds, trefoils, and grasses of the foreground have lent their third of the plates, dated 1645, is that variously known as TheWatering-place, The Boat-house, and The Grotto (B. 231). Hereagain we have a mass of vegetation clothing the steep banks of awatercourse, and Rembrandts facile point has admirably suggested. A VIKW OF OMVAL. 1645 (B. 200). the luxuriant herbage of damp soil in this shady spot, where naturesgrace and bounty are manifest in the minutest details/ Rembrandt had now completed his apprenticeship in landscapeart. From this time forth the contrast we have noted between theincoherence of his pictures and compositions in this genre, and theperfection of his drawings and sketches from nature, gradually dis- ^ Dissenting from Bartsch and Charles Blane, Mr. Middleton-Wake holds that thisplate exists only in one state, and that variations in the different imjiressions which thosewriters took to be proofs of a second state are due simply to inequalities in the traces of the scraper, and of various retouches, are very apparent in an impressioncf the second state in the Bibliothlqtie Nationale. REMBRANDTS MILL 245 appears. A small panel in the Cassel Museum, a IViuter Scene,signed, and dated 1646, has all the vivid and sudden qua
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