. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. CHRIST IN THE GARDEN OF OLUT3 About 1657 (B. 75).. lloiuaii J hit In ih^ {^^54)- (national ) JOSEPH ACCUSED BY POTIPHARS WIFE 309 Rembrandt himself had never equalled its magnificence. Evenin the Szcsanna, also at Berlin, the variety and splendour of hispalette are scarcely so fully exhibited. To avoid the gaudiness andincoherence of multiplied tints, he has with exquisite art confinedthe general tonality to the play of two complementary colours,opposing the various reds of the picture to skilfully distributedgreens. The simplicity of t
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. CHRIST IN THE GARDEN OF OLUT3 About 1657 (B. 75).. lloiuaii J hit In ih^ {^^54)- (national ) JOSEPH ACCUSED BY POTIPHARS WIFE 309 Rembrandt himself had never equalled its magnificence. Evenin the Szcsanna, also at Berlin, the variety and splendour of hispalette are scarcely so fully exhibited. To avoid the gaudiness andincoherence of multiplied tints, he has with exquisite art confinedthe general tonality to the play of two complementary colours,opposing the various reds of the picture to skilfully distributedgreens. The simplicity of the general effect is thus preserved,and the eye of thespectator feasts undis-turbed on the sumptuousharmony, in which Rem-brandt seems to haveepitomised all the splen-dours of Eastern life. Now, as always, themaster loved to vary oneform of work by recourseto another. Idleness wasimpossible to him, and achange of occupation theonly relaxation his cease-less activity addition to the manypictures already de-scribed, he executed aconsiderable number ofetchings in 1654 and1655. These,
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