Word: saskia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographs on exhibition show the help given by the X-ray in determining whether certain paintings are the work of Rembrandt or of his pupil, Ferdinand Bol, who studied under the master from 1635 to 1641. On one disputed picture, a portrait of "Saskia," the shadow graphs indicate that the underpainting is probably the work of Bol, while the final surface painting is probably by Rembrandt. X-ray evidence shows that several paintings, once attributed to Rembrandt, may really prove to be the work of Bol, whose underpainting is cruder and less decisive than the master...
Disheartened Rembrandt replaces Saskia by making his housekeeper Geertje Dirx (Gertrude Lawrence) his mistress...
Thowing precedent off the lot, Korda begins his version of Rembrandt with the painter at the peak of popularity and wealth and stops the cameras while the hero still lives and chuckles. The first axe to fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels...
...portraits are notable for the expression which he put into them. Several are of his wife, Saskia, who died in 1642. His landscapes show a grace uncommon to most etchings, especially in the trees and clouds. It is perhaps due to this experience in nature that he succeeded in putting so much life into his biblical representations. Instead of following the old tradition of showing a pale saint gazing lifelessly towards Heaven, he has chosen subjects such as "Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels," "Christ Driving Out Money Changers from the Temple," and "Christ Healing the Sick." The last is also...
Rembrandt kept spending money at top speed though he was no longer getting portrait commissions. This procedure came to its inevitable finish when in 1657, at the age of 51, he was officially declared bankrupt. Saskia's kinsmen had got in time's nick a second mortgage on the house, to safeguard Titus' depleted legacy. At the forced sale of Rembrandt's collections, the prices bid were under what Dutchmen were accustomed to bid for paintings. He saved his etching plates, however, and got a little money for himself from the sale of prints...