Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . Looten, a name not uncommonin Amsterdam at the period, but referring in this case to a well-known merchant of thecity. The work is aremarkable one, carriedout in a rich impasto atonce firm and supple :the skilful handling,which shows no traceof effort or hesitation,recalls the manner ofThomas de same broad, yetconscientious workman-ship marks the portraitof a young woman,seated, and wearing ablack dress with whitecollar and head-dress, inthe Vienna Academy. Itbears the same date andmonogram. We may add. to the list of works thus signed a
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . Looten, a name not uncommonin Amsterdam at the period, but referring in this case to a well-known merchant of thecity. The work is aremarkable one, carriedout in a rich impasto atonce firm and supple :the skilful handling,which shows no traceof effort or hesitation,recalls the manner ofThomas de same broad, yetconscientious workman-ship marks the portraitof a young woman,seated, and wearing ablack dress with whitecollar and head-dress, inthe Vienna Academy. Itbears the same date andmonogram. We may add. to the list of works thus signed a male portrait which wesaw not long ago in the possession of Mr. Quarles van Uffordat the Hague. It is a three-quarters length of a man of finepresence, with regular features, and luxuriant hair. He facesthe spectator, wearing a military costume with a gold embroideredbaldrick, and resting his left hand on a sword. His right handgrasps a gun. According to a study on one of Rembrandtspupils, Paulus Lesire of Dordrecht, published by Messrs. PORTRAIT OF JORIS DE n8 REMBRANDT Veth and Bredius in Oud-Holland, this martial sitter was probablya certain Captain Joris de Caulery, who seems to have had amania for portraits of himself. He was painted in turn byM. Uytenbroeck, J. Lievens, P. Lesire, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt,who represented him with a gun in his hand. As Mr. vanUffords portrait is the only one by the master in which we havebeen able to discover this weapon, there seems every reason tosuppose it the picture in question. In addition to these single portraits, Rembrandt painted severalpairs, of husband and wife, and in cases where the two havefound their way into the same collection, it is very interestingto note the combinations of costume or attitude by whichthe painter seeks to make each enhance the effect of theother. This is specially the case in two large oval portraits,which have lately passed to America from the collection of thePrincesse de Sagan. In t
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