no
ANNA SfNKOWSKA
72. Maarten de IbA, Susanna, ca. 7 dA'P 7 JPd, ^en and AAtre and
wa^Ae^, retoMcAed wdA wAdegonacAe, A^ v 7dJ /nw, (bAAo/inenw,
RrocJaw, inu ($727 (A'nvento/y AA'dP.* nr7dP), pAot. (Arndnenn?
Rembrandt in his own collection.^ On the other hand, he admired Rembrandt's skills in
the application of colour as well as overall composition. In the summary at the end of the
Conns* de pur ^rmcipas', which Lubomirski also possessed, de Piles gives
Rembrandt six out of a maximum of twenty points for drawing skills, while the Italian
masters like Raphael 'score' as much as eighteen points. For the use of colour and
composition, Rembrandt scores fifteen and seventeen points respectively.^ In Potocki's
booklet, it may be discerned that he also assessed Rembrandt in much the same way as de
Piles. Even Potocki gives Rembrandt a score of only six points for drawing skills
compared with Raphael, who scores, yet again, eighteen points.^ Notably, all the studies
of Rembrandt by the Polish art historian Luszczkiewicz, nineteen years after the death of
Lubomirski, were valued at six cents, except for the detailed study in black crayon of the
Ibid., p. 436: „Ag ncwArg & ygy A^&ygdM <^Mgy'ay grfrg gn gV MngprgMvg convaincantg A <?M;' voMdre
/gMr rgndrg jlgsEcg".
^ DE PILES, CoMAy..., op. cit., p. 303.
6* Refer back to fh. no. 11.
ANNA SfNKOWSKA
72. Maarten de IbA, Susanna, ca. 7 dA'P 7 JPd, ^en and AAtre and
wa^Ae^, retoMcAed wdA wAdegonacAe, A^ v 7dJ /nw, (bAAo/inenw,
RrocJaw, inu ($727 (A'nvento/y AA'dP.* nr7dP), pAot. (Arndnenn?
Rembrandt in his own collection.^ On the other hand, he admired Rembrandt's skills in
the application of colour as well as overall composition. In the summary at the end of the
Conns* de pur ^rmcipas', which Lubomirski also possessed, de Piles gives
Rembrandt six out of a maximum of twenty points for drawing skills, while the Italian
masters like Raphael 'score' as much as eighteen points. For the use of colour and
composition, Rembrandt scores fifteen and seventeen points respectively.^ In Potocki's
booklet, it may be discerned that he also assessed Rembrandt in much the same way as de
Piles. Even Potocki gives Rembrandt a score of only six points for drawing skills
compared with Raphael, who scores, yet again, eighteen points.^ Notably, all the studies
of Rembrandt by the Polish art historian Luszczkiewicz, nineteen years after the death of
Lubomirski, were valued at six cents, except for the detailed study in black crayon of the
Ibid., p. 436: „Ag ncwArg & ygy A^&ygdM <^Mgy'ay grfrg gn gV MngprgMvg convaincantg A <?M;' voMdre
/gMr rgndrg jlgsEcg".
^ DE PILES, CoMAy..., op. cit., p. 303.
6* Refer back to fh. no. 11.