Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894, Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943. Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century · London, Seeley and Co. · leaf 85
since we approve of truth in the representation of the features and object to it in the trunk or limbs. Certainly Rembrandt never palliated plainness, he described even the ugliness of his own nose (B. 4. M. 42.), but whenever the human face is in question there may always be a ready and ample… … Rembrandt has done in that portrait the ProJUc of a Bald I\Lvi 'luith a Jcn.vdlcd Cham. B. 292. A/. 39. slow approaches of senility. Some of the most Interesting heads of old men are without names, and all we know is that they once existed. Rembrandt seems to have taken an interest in them for the…
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 · Etching, Dutch
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