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...first group of etchings contains the masterly "Raising of Lazarus" and the very famous "Hundred Guilder Print", representing Christ healing the sick. Among the landscapes on exhibition are "Three Trees", the "Cottage and Dutch Bay-barn", and the "Gold-weigher's Field", Portraits fo the artist himself, his mother, and the men of his time--Sutma, Sylvius, and his friend, the Burgomaster Six, are also included...
...career, and illustrate the entire range of subjects used by the master--religious, allegorical, landscape, and portrait, in all of which there is a profound human interest. His mastery of technique is shown alike in such subjects as "Christ and His Disciples," etched with greatest abstraction, and the "Hundred Guilder Print," where details in the shadows have been worked out with extreme care. There are prints from his early period, executed entirely with the etching needle; others dating--from the middle of his career, when he used dry-point in connection with etching; and those of a later period worked...
...choose the significant line, omitting all that was not essential, and a wash drawing of Joseph in the Carpenter's Shop is a good illustration of his use of chiaroscuro. Of the etchings shown, the Three Trees and Christ Healing the Sick, popularly known as the "Hundred Guilder Print," are among Rembrandt's most important, and justly most famous works...
...once real and noble." The truth is, that you are surprised, but not for the reasons M. Blanc gives, - just the reverse. Rembrandt's Christ has features that may be called real, but no one ought to call them noble. In spite of this defect, the Hundred Guilder piece is a truly powerful composition, and no one who studies it with attention can escape its influence. The deep velvety black which sets forth the central group casts a shade of gloom and mystery over the whole, and the effect is like that of Schumann's music...
Want of space will not allow the mention of any of the landscapes or portraits; but if the above induces a single person for the first time to study the Hundred Guilder print, it will have done as much good as any article of the kind can hope...