Howard, Frank: Colour, as a means of art: being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs (London, 1838)

CHAPTER II.

SECTION III.

HOBBIMA AND RUYSDAEL S PRINCIPLES.

These masters have adopted a style which, though
apparently as opposite to" that of Cuyp and Both as
cold is to warm, resembles it in this respect—they
rarely, if ever, admit positive colours in force,
and thus offer another simple principle for the
treatment and arrangement of tints.

In Hobbima and Ruysdael, who painted land-
scapes, dark brownish masses are relieved against a
cloudy grey sky, and some white or grey light is
introduced in front to carry the colour of the sky
through the work. The general aspect of the
picture is cold. What little warmth of tone may