r or aside in this or that direction, more particularly in the art
of landscape, but even Whistler, at once the supreme virtuoso and the
greatest individuality of nineteenth-century etching, falls far short of
Rembrandt in the one thing which makes or mars genius of the highest
order, i.e. depth of humanity, without surpassing him in the technical
mastery of expressive line. Rembrandt remains for us the greatest etcher
who has ever lived, as well as one of the noblest exponents in art of the
deepest and most generous emotions of life.

BOOKS OF REFERENCE

CATALOGUES

Gersaint, E. F. Paris 1751
Yver, P. Amsterdam 1756 (supplement to Gersaint)
Bartsch, Adam. Vienna 1797
Claussin, J. J. de. Paris 1824 (supplement 1828)
Wilson, T. London 1836
Blanc, C. Paris 1859-61 (1873, and with a complete series of
reproductions, 1880)
Middleton-Wake, C. H. London 1878
Dutuit, E. Paris 1881-4 (with a complete series of reproductions in
heliogravure); Manuel de l'Amateur V (1882), and VI (1885).
Rovinski, D. St. Petersburg 1890 (with atlas of reproductions
covering all the etchings in practically every state)
Rovinski, D. Les Eleves de Rembrandt. St. Petersburg 1894
Seidlitz, W. von. Leipzig 1895
Dodgson, C. In Hamerton. the Etchings of Rembrandt, London 1904
Singer, H. W. Stuttgart 1906 (and 1910)
Hind, A. M. London 1912

GENERAL

Also including the most important works on Rembrandt's paintings and
drawings

Vosmaer, C. Rembrandt, sa vie et ses oeuvres. The Hague 1868 (and
1877)
Haden, (Sir) F. Seymour. The Etched Work of Rembrandt. London 1879
Michel, E. Rembrandt, sa vie, son oeuvre, et son temps. Paris 1893
Hamerton, P. G. The Etchings of Rembrandt. London 1894 (and 1904,
with catalogue by C. Dodgson)
Bode, W., and Groot, C. H. de. The Complete Work of Rembrandt
(reproduced in photogravure). 8 vols. Paris 1897--1906
Groot, C. H. de. Die Urkunden ueber Rembrandt (1575-1721). The Hague
1906. (English version in vol. 8 of Bode)
Groot, C. H. de. Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts. Versuch eines
beschreibenden und kritischen Katalogs. Haarlem 1906
Hamann, R. Rembrandt's Radierungen. Berlin 1906
Holmes, C. J. The Development of Rembrandt as an Etcher. _Burlingt