Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rembrandt, currently on display in of the period have immense appeal. But the reluctance of Museum directors to loan their most popular showpieces makes the exhibition a disappointment. The exhibition contains no Vermeers and only nine Rembrandts (eight of insignificant quality). The seven paintings by Hals, though over-emphasizing his later work, succeed exceptionally well. The late Portrait of a Woman from the Saint Louis Museum, and the small Portrait of a Man are exceptionally beautiful. They both have the characteristic dark background of Hals' late canvasses, and they demonstrate the virtuosity--particularly in Portrait...
...Rembrandt's The Rape of Europa, painted in 1632, beautifully exemplifies the powerful Baroque dramatization, the juxtaposition of rich golden browns with cool tones of blue, and the intricate articulation of the detail which characterize the mythological paintings of his early years. The rest of the Rembrandts are mediocre at best. The two portraits of Joannes Elison and Maria Bocknelle are flat and uninteresting. The Portrait of Young Titus has gained wider acclaim from its price than from its quality. This washed-out portrait--which fetched $2.25 million may even be misnamed. It is the only painting which portrays Rembrandt...
...Head of an Old Man by Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's most talented pupil, is one of this exhibition's outstanding pieces. The tiny square panel radiates deep emotional expression and contemplative moodiness. The heavy impasto (thickness of paint), the bold brush strokes, and the warm brown palette are reminiscent of Rembrandt portraiture at its best...
Ideally, an exhibition of seventeenth century Dutch art would represent not only the three great masters--Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jan Vermeer--and the artists who influenced them, but also the breadth and abundance of high quality painting done in the Netherlands at that time. Such an exhibition would show Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer against a backdrop of Mannerist, Caravagguesque, and Italianate paintings; it would include a representation of the best still lifes, biblical and historical paintings, genre scenes, landscapes, marine paintings, and portraits...
...Honthorst and Terbrugghen--with rich colors and deep chiaroscuro effects (contrasts of light and dark) are also fairly well sampled, as are the Italianate canvasses, including paintings by Poelenburgh and Nicolaes Berchem. The influence of these three styles is very marked in seventeenth century Dutch paintings, particularly in the Rembrandts, but the range of Rembrandt paintings in this exhibition is not adequate to demonstrate this clearly...