. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ene,signed, and dated 1646, has all the vivid and sudden quality of asketch from nature, reproducing with absolute sincerity a simplemotive, painted in a few minutes from a scene before the artists impression of the cold light of a winter afternoon, on a frozencanal where skaters disport themselves, is rendered with singularanimation, and the little picture has all the spirit and actuality of themasters best etchings. Several studies of a like nature, which haveunfortunately disappeared, are included in his inventory, and we haveyet to m
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. ene,signed, and dated 1646, has all the vivid and sudden quality of asketch from nature, reproducing with absolute sincerity a simplemotive, painted in a few minutes from a scene before the artists impression of the cold light of a winter afternoon, on a frozencanal where skaters disport themselves, is rendered with singularanimation, and the little picture has all the spirit and actuality of themasters best etchings. Several studies of a like nature, which haveunfortunately disappeared, are included in his inventory, and we haveyet to mention a more important work, which combines the realismof this example with a higher imaginative quality. In such congenialstudies Rembrandt found distraction from his griefs and disappoint-ments, a renewal of his powers, and a further development of hisgenius. He still looked at nature with a poets eyes, but the handwith which he interpreted her had acquired the facility, the assurance,and the technical accomplishment that proclaim a REMPRANHTS MILL. .641 (b. 83;). DRAWING, WASHED WITH INDIAN INK (British Museum.) CHAPTER XV
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