. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. 6) failed in thebiting, and the impres-sions are very same may be ob-served of a Riposo of thesame year (B. 58), inwhich the Virgin is re-presented gently raisinga veil that covers theInfant Jesus, to show himto Joseph. The latter,seated beside her, turnsfrom his meal to look atthe sleeping Child; abird and his mate on thetree above them warble an accompaniment to the idyll. The Phi/oso-pher Aleditating {V). 148), an old man with his hands upon a book, isneither siofned nor dated. Its analoq-ies of execution with the fore-going are, how
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. 6) failed in thebiting, and the impres-sions are very same may be ob-served of a Riposo of thesame year (B. 58), inwhich the Virgin is re-presented gently raisinga veil that covers theInfant Jesus, to show himto Joseph. The latter,seated beside her, turnsfrom his meal to look atthe sleeping Child; abird and his mate on thetree above them warble an accompaniment to the idyll. The Phi/oso-pher Aleditating {V). 148), an old man with his hands upon a book, isneither siofned nor dated. Its analoq-ies of execution with the fore-going are, however, so marked that it may safely be assigned tothis period. Such hasty works as these were Rembrandts amusements, arecord of fugitive impressions by a process he had completelymastered. His productiveness had been so incessant hitherto thathe may well have felt a certain weariness at this juncture, and in spiteof his philosophy he had been greatly shaken by Saskias death. Itseems probable that the poor recluse felt that yearning for rest and. WITH HIS SOX ISAAC. 1645 (D. 34). REMBRANDT S TREATMENT OF LANDSCAPE 237 refreshment which draws so many stricken souls to the fields andwoods. Or it may be that Titus—who, to judge by his portraits,was never robust—required country air. Whatever the cause,studies of landscape become very frequent in his ceuvrc from thistime onward. Rembrandt had always loved natural scenery, as thenumerous works by landscape painters included in his inventoryattest. It was no doubt while still living in his native town thathe bought sea pieces and views of the dunes by Jan Percellis, whowas living in seclusion near Leyden, and by Percellis brother-in-law,H. van Anthonissen, who sojourned for a time at Leyderdorp beforesettling in Amsterdam. Besides the works of these masters, heowned grisailles by Simon de Vlieger, views of the Tyrol by
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