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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Rembrandt, by Estelle M. Hurll This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMBRANDT *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [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. * * * * * 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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