. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. Titian, and Cor-reggio found the modelsfor their Venuses, Ledas,and Antiopes, the fairwomen who unblushinglyreveal their superb nudityin the landscapes of themasters ? Rubens, the re-fined and courtly cavalier,painted his wife, HelenaFourment, in the Blen-heim Androjueda, now oneof the gems of the BerlinGallery, and in the beau-tiful picture at Vienna sheis shown without eventhe thin disguise of a mythological title, preparing for the bath, hernudit)- but slightly veiled by the fur robe drawn round her body.^ Rembrandt, then, as we see, might hav
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. Titian, and Cor-reggio found the modelsfor their Venuses, Ledas,and Antiopes, the fairwomen who unblushinglyreveal their superb nudityin the landscapes of themasters ? Rubens, the re-fined and courtly cavalier,painted his wife, HelenaFourment, in the Blen-heim Androjueda, now oneof the gems of the BerlinGallery, and in the beau-tiful picture at Vienna sheis shown without eventhe thin disguise of a mythological title, preparing for the bath, hernudit)- but slightly veiled by the fur robe drawn round her body.^ Rembrandt, then, as we see, might have pleaded the examples ofhis most illustrious predecessors. Loving nature and art as he did,he must have rejoiced more than any among them in the opportunitiesnow ahorded him of carrying out the studies he had long desired to 1 In a picture now in the Brunswick Museum, Tobias hroufiht by Rcii^uel to Sara(No. 46 in the Catalogue). 2 Lii^g Rembrandt, Rubens kept tliis study in his studio, and in his will bequeatnedit to Helena Fourment KJKTRAIT OF REMBRANDT. Abnut 1634 (Hague Museum)
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