Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . HSHEBA. THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY — PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH BAS ETCHINGS FROM 1643 TO 1645—LANDSCAPE STUDIES—THE THREE TREES. THE Night Watch was finished in theearlier part of 1642. The year before,the happiness of Rembrandt and hiswife had been crowned by the birth of a was baptised in the Zuider Kerk, Septem-ber 22, 1641, by the name of Titus, in memoryof Saskias sister Titia, who died at Flushingon June 16 of the same year. Rembrandtstwo brothers-in-law, Copal and Van Loo, werepresent at the christening, together with AeltgenPeters, Sylvi
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . HSHEBA. THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY — PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH BAS ETCHINGS FROM 1643 TO 1645—LANDSCAPE STUDIES—THE THREE TREES. THE Night Watch was finished in theearlier part of 1642. The year before,the happiness of Rembrandt and hiswife had been crowned by the birth of a was baptised in the Zuider Kerk, Septem-ber 22, 1641, by the name of Titus, in memoryof Saskias sister Titia, who died at Flushingon June 16 of the same year. Rembrandtstwo brothers-in-law, Copal and Van Loo, werepresent at the christening, together with AeltgenPeters, Sylvius widow. From this time forward Saskias strengthdeclined rapidly. We know from the etchings that in 1639 she hadgrown thin and ailing, and that her radiant expression had givenplace to an air of mournful foreboding. If we are to accept thetestimony of the so-called Portrait of Saskia, dated 1641 in theDresden Gallery (No. 1562 in the catalogue) she must have recoveredfor a while. The strongly illuminated face that confronts the spec-. PORTRAIT OF REMBRANDT WITHA FUR CAP AND LIGHT DRESS. 1630 (B. 24). 294 REMBRANDT tator in this portrait beams with health ; the cheeks are round andblooming, the expression gay and untroubled. But the resemblanceto Saskia is far from striking—the figure is fuller, and apparentlytaller. If she really sat for this picture we must look upon it asone of those studies Rembrandt was fond of making from hisrelatives and intimates, in which he took little pains to preservemere likeness. A something akin to Saskia in the features suggeststhat the sitter may have been one of her sisters. But be this asit may, the same model undoubtedly served for another portraitrather more minute in treatment, painted by Rembrandt somefew years earlier, between 1635 and 1638. It represents a youngwoman putting the finishing touches to her toilet, and was latelypurchased by Dr. Bredius, who at first took it to be a portrait ofSaskia. The analogies between this and
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