Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . his portrait, he foundedthe Chamber of Music, a sort of opera-house, at Amsterdam. Hiselegant dress makes itdifficult to imagine thathe began life as a lock-smith. There are tracesof his humble origin,however, in his bulkyperson and powerfulhands, as in the tone ofsomewhat vulgar gal-lantry that obtains inmany of his pieces,notably the Theodoreand Dejanira. Notwith-standing his robust ap-pearance, Krul died in1644, aged barely forty-two. He was intimatewith Rembrandt andhis circle, for one ofhis works, the Pam-piere Wereld (the Paper World), contain
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . his portrait, he foundedthe Chamber of Music, a sort of opera-house, at Amsterdam. Hiselegant dress makes itdifficult to imagine thathe began life as a lock-smith. There are tracesof his humble origin,however, in his bulkyperson and powerfulhands, as in the tone ofsomewhat vulgar gal-lantry that obtains inmany of his pieces,notably the Theodoreand Dejanira. Notwith-standing his robust ap-pearance, Krul died in1644, aged barely forty-two. He was intimatewith Rembrandt andhis circle, for one ofhis works, the Pam-piere Wereld (the Paper World), contains an etching by Bol, Death and the Courtier, formerlyattributed to Rembrandt, in which the womans face bears somelikeness to Saskia. The year 1633 was sucn a prolific one that we must be contentwith a brief mention of the various small portraits of children, ex-amples of which are owned by Lady Wallace, the Rothschildfamily, and Prince Youssoupoff. The Princes seems to me one ofthe best. It represents a bright-looking boy, with a round rosy. PORTRAIT OF A (Brunswick Museum). i42 REMBRANDT face, wearing a fur-trimmed cap and a dark red costume. Mr. JamesSimon of Berlin has one of these little portraits (17^- x 14^ inches),painted about 1633-1634, a full-length of a young woman, wearing ablack head-dress, a black gown with violet sleeves, and a white collarand cuffs. She stands near a table covered with a crimson Smyrnarug, beside a gray chair. The rug, the chair, the light upon thewall, and the charming expression of the young face, justify theattribution of the little panel to Rembrandt, in spite of a suspiciousclumsiness in the drawing of the hands, and heaviness in the exe-cution. A more important work on this small scale is the whole-length portrait of a young couple in a room, about one-third of life-size, signed, and dated 1633, in the Hope collection at husband, a man of rather thick-set figure, stands beside his youngwife, who is seated to the lef
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