. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. KEMBRANDTS HEAD AND OTHER SKETCHES. 1631 and 1650 (?) (B. 370). instincts of his countrywomen in this bold, vigorous, and rapidly-painted study. His little model reappears in a picture in the StockholmMuseum (No. 584 in the Catalogue). It is apparently dated 1651,but the figures, especially the last of the four, are almost illegible,and we believe it to have been painted some two or three yearslater. The costume and attitude are almost the same as in theSt. Petersburg example. But the child has grown, and, thoughthe features are little altered, t
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. KEMBRANDTS HEAD AND OTHER SKETCHES. 1631 and 1650 (?) (B. 370). instincts of his countrywomen in this bold, vigorous, and rapidly-painted study. His little model reappears in a picture in the StockholmMuseum (No. 584 in the Catalogue). It is apparently dated 1651,but the figures, especially the last of the four, are almost illegible,and we believe it to have been painted some two or three yearslater. The costume and attitude are almost the same as in theSt. Petersburg example. But the child has grown, and, thoughthe features are little altered, the face and the hands are longer. Jhxthshcha {1654). (loivke.) STUDIES OF OLD PEOPLE 305 and more refined. Leaning in a musing attitude on a window-sill, she indulges in some youthful day-dream. Rembrandt, nodoubt to give her pleasure, seems to have adorned her simpledress with some trinkets from his own stores. She wears a pearlnecklace ; her red frock is bordered with gold embroidery, and herhair is drawn stiffly off her forehead and confined in a smart execution is more careful and finished in this study, but it hasall the vigour and freshness of the earlier portrait. The strongshadows are relieved by warm reflections, very boldly and brilliantlyapplied. The face, thoughcalm, is full of skin is firm andsupple, showing the blueveins here and , health, and theglow of expanding lifeseem to breathe fromthe sturdy little body. Very different is themotive in three femalestudies in the Hermitage(Nos. 804, 805, and 806).Old age, decrepitude, anddecline here inspire themasters brush. All thre
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