Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . ably the Lotand his Daughters. Shere-appears in various por-traits executed at thebeginning of his sojournat Amsterdam : one, apendant to a portrait ofhimself, is in Lord Le-confields collection atPetworth ; another is inthe Brera at Milan, anda third belongs to SirFrancis Cook of Rich-mond. But we think thatDr. Bode has perhapsunwittingly swelled thelist of Lysbeths por-traits, by the addition of several that really represent Rembrandts wife, Saskia, who, as weshall be able to prove, appears in the painters work somewhatearlier than has been hither
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . ably the Lotand his Daughters. Shere-appears in various por-traits executed at thebeginning of his sojournat Amsterdam : one, apendant to a portrait ofhimself, is in Lord Le-confields collection atPetworth ; another is inthe Brera at Milan, anda third belongs to SirFrancis Cook of Rich-mond. But we think thatDr. Bode has perhapsunwittingly swelled thelist of Lysbeths por-traits, by the addition of several that really represent Rembrandts wife, Saskia, who, as weshall be able to prove, appears in the painters work somewhatearlier than has been hitherto supposed. It is, in fact, difficult todistinguish very accurately between the two. As we have alreadyexplained, the works painted by Rembrandt from members of hisfamily, or from intimate friends, are more in the nature of studies thanportraits, and likeness was often subordinated to picturesque effect,or the solution of some problem of chiaroscuro. There seems to havebeen a certain analogy between the types of the two young girls ; or it. STUDY OF AN OLD MAN. 1632 (Cassel Museum). no REMBRANDT may be, as Dr. Bode conjectures,1 that Rembrandt, in his earlyportraits of Saskia, unconsciously gave her some of the attributes of hissister. Be this as it may, Rembrandt eagerly availed himself of the newmodels offered him in Amsterdam, though he continued to paint fromthe members of his own family. Several fresh types of old age nowtake the place of those familiar to us in the works of his Leyden,period. Among them are two dated 1632, in the Cassel first (No. 210 in the Catalogue) is a portrait of an old man witha bald head and gray beard, a high wrinkled forehead, and smalleyes under overhanging brows. The face is characterised by amingled shrewdness and benevolence, and the handling, thoughapparently very free, is no less careful than assured. The impastois fairly thick, and is worked up very elaborately in the modelling,the brushing following the surfaces with great pr
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