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Title: Rembrandt
A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the
Painter with Introduction and Interpretation
Author: Estelle M. Hurll
Release Date: October 22, 2006 [EBook #19602]
Language: English
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[Illustration: REMBRANDT VAN RYN (BY HIMSELF)
_National Gallery, London_]
Masterpieces of Art
REMBRANDT
A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES
AND A PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER
WITH INTRODUCTION AND
INTERPRETATION
BY
ESTELLE M. HURLL
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1899
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
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PREFACE
The choice of pictures for this collection has been made with the
object of familiarizing the student with works fairly representative
of Rembrandt's art in portraiture and Biblical illustration, landscape
and genre study, in painting and etching. Admirers of the Dutch master
may miss some well-known pictures. For obvious reasons the Lecture in
Anatomy is deemed unsuitable for this place, and the Hundred Guilder
Print contains too many figures to be reproduced here clearly. The
Syndics of the Cloth Guild and the print of Christ Preaching will
compensate for these omissions, and show Rembrandt at his best, both
with brush and burin.
There are perhaps no paintings in the world more difficult to
reproduce satisfactorily in black and white than those of Rembrandt.
His marvelous effects of chiaroscuro leave in darkness portions of the
composition, which appear in
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