. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. n of the medi:eval spirit displayed by Rembrandt, in hisgrouping of the serried ranks of mailed horsemen in martial andresolute array. The figure of the leader, lance in rest on hisprancing white charger, is especially admirable. Instinct with theprescience of modern Romanticism, it recalls one of Delacroixs vividcreations. The composition, it appears, was never carried out ona larcj-er scale. The Q-risaille remained in Rembrandts studio andfigures in the inventory of 1656. We need not greatly regret that thepainter received no commission for the
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. n of the medi:eval spirit displayed by Rembrandt, in hisgrouping of the serried ranks of mailed horsemen in martial andresolute array. The figure of the leader, lance in rest on hisprancing white charger, is especially admirable. Instinct with theprescience of modern Romanticism, it recalls one of Delacroixs vividcreations. The composition, it appears, was never carried out ona larcj-er scale. The Q-risaille remained in Rembrandts studio andfigures in the inventory of 1656. We need not greatly regret that thepainter received no commission for the large picture he had aspired topaint. In its present dimensions the sketch is highly interesting,as exhibiting Rembrandts methods of composition. In a moreimposing form its extravagances would have been fatally commentaries, more or less ingenious, by which some writers ^ The introducaon of this shield seems to confirm the idea that Rembrandt hadhopes of a place in one of the public buildings, perhaps the Stadniiis, for his noli me (Kruiiiwick Museum).
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