Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894, Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943. Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century · London, Seeley and Co. · leaf 202
EENTH CENTURT it ; but whoever looks at it will perceive at once a vital difference between such drawing and that of Potter’s. Berchem sketches the scene in a rapid, summary manner, using a few strokes only for each figure. It is Rembrandt’s method ; but what a difference in the result ! There is a… … Fig. z6 — The Cow. By Paul Potter. B. 3. lines are all just beside the truth. His mind, which has not sufficient love for things to brood upon their forms, is incapable of the swift act of sympathy necessary to seize their movement in action ; and its power of reproduction, by nature probably a…
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669 · Etching, Dutch
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