. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. his ray of strongly concen-trated light strikes on thenose and the right cheekof a thin pale face, withbrown beard and mou-staches. The Portrait ofan Old Alan in a meditativeAttitude, in the Duke ofDevonshires collection atChiswick, is equally broadin treatment, and the ex-pression of the head iseven more may further mentionthree small studies of heads, one in Mr. Alfred Buckleys collection,the other two owned by M. Leon Bonnat and M. Rodolphe the latter are painted from the same model, a so-called Rabbiin a bro
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. his ray of strongly concen-trated light strikes on thenose and the right cheekof a thin pale face, withbrown beard and mou-staches. The Portrait ofan Old Alan in a meditativeAttitude, in the Duke ofDevonshires collection atChiswick, is equally broadin treatment, and the ex-pression of the head iseven more may further mentionthree small studies of heads, one in Mr. Alfred Buckleys collection,the other two owned by M. Leon Bonnat and M. Rodolphe the latter are painted from the same model, a so-called Rabbiin a brown cap, with a spreading beard. The light falls on thewrinkled forehead and strongly marked brows, beneath which gleama pair of singularly piercing eyes. The effect in these sketches isfrank and life-like ; and the rich impasto of the high lights is verydexterously opposed to the deep golden shadows of the surroundingsurfaces. In the Portrait of a Youth in Lady Wallaces collection, werecognise Titus, older by some two or three years than in DE\ VOOBCEVEL IAS HET BvRCER-WeesHLIS IS DE KaLVERSTBAAT,LATER OE KEIZERSKROON, OMSTREEKS I560 CEBOlWO.(Fnc-itmjti ctntr tttliftiii^ vsii 17:5^- THE imperial CROWN AT AMSTERDAM. Facsimile of a drawing of 1725. REMBRANDTS STUDIES FROM HIMSELF 337 Rodolphe Kamis fine picture. He is painted almost full face,simply dressed in a brown cloak, and a red cap, from beneath whichhis hair falls in curlinq- locks about his neck. There is a slisfhtdown on his upper lip, but his face shows the same traces of ill-health, and is marked by the same sweetness of expression. Inthe isolation of his life at this period, Rembrandt naturally madefrequent studies from himself. We recognise his features in severalportraits, some dated, some ascribed to this period on internalevidences. One of these is in the Bridgwater Gallery, another inthe Cassel Museum. The latter bears a date, which Dr. Eisen-mann deciphers 1654. The execution, however, and the apparentage o
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