DOI Heft:
No.9 (December, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Books for Christmas presents, and others
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0119
New Ptiblications
Rembra7idt: his Life, his Work, his Time. By
Emile Michel. 2 vols. (London : Heinemann.
42.?.)—To call any book "the book of the season"
is naturally a misnomer, unless one speaks for a
special class only. That this sumptuous quarto
in two volumes, packed with fine illutrations, occu-
pies the post of honour for all lovers of art, may
be safely affirmed. Its sixty-seven full-page plates,
and the two hundred and fifty admirable illustra-
tions, would alone make it indispensable. Its text
is equally valuable, as Mr. Frederic Wedmore
points out in his introduction, Bartsch is scarcely
up to date, and the superb catalogue raisonne of
Charles Blanc is very expensive, The present
volume is not exactly similar to its French prede-
cessor, it lacks a few of the plates therein, but has
instead a number of fine examples from English
collections, which naturally increase its value. To
summarise in a few lines the attractions of this
eagerly awaited book is impossible. The price re-
presents such an enormous value for the money, that
even those who cannot afford it should endeavour
to make a special effort. The schools of the hour
wax and wane; but Rembrandt is above fashion,
and his superb art and consummate technique in
the wonderful group of works he has left us may be
well studied here. The famous Three Trees we
are permitted to reproduce, is a very fair sample of
the blocks in the text, but printed as they are on
tinted panels, their effect is far more beautiful than
might be gathered from the one that appears here.
It is an epoch-making monograph that every artist
should possess ; for in it quantity and quality go
hand in hand. The last word must be one of
grateful recognition to Mr.Frederic Wedmore for
his discreet and capable editing.
FROM " REMBRANDT, HIS LIFE AND WORKS 1
Elementary De-
sign. By R. G.
Hatton; and
Egyptian Art.
By Charles
Ryan. 2s. 6d.
each. (London:
Chapman & Hall.)
—• The first of
these manuals de-
mands a long no-
tice, which wehope
to give it shortly.
Here it must suf-
fice to praise its
155 illustrations
and the lucid and
practical explana-
tions whichaccom-
pany them. The
second volume is
an excellent epi-
tome of its sub-
ject, and freely
illustrated. Both
are in the new
Science and Art
' THE THREE TREES." (FROM "REMBRANDT, HIS LIFE AND WORKS." HEINEMANN) Series.
107
Rembra7idt: his Life, his Work, his Time. By
Emile Michel. 2 vols. (London : Heinemann.
42.?.)—To call any book "the book of the season"
is naturally a misnomer, unless one speaks for a
special class only. That this sumptuous quarto
in two volumes, packed with fine illutrations, occu-
pies the post of honour for all lovers of art, may
be safely affirmed. Its sixty-seven full-page plates,
and the two hundred and fifty admirable illustra-
tions, would alone make it indispensable. Its text
is equally valuable, as Mr. Frederic Wedmore
points out in his introduction, Bartsch is scarcely
up to date, and the superb catalogue raisonne of
Charles Blanc is very expensive, The present
volume is not exactly similar to its French prede-
cessor, it lacks a few of the plates therein, but has
instead a number of fine examples from English
collections, which naturally increase its value. To
summarise in a few lines the attractions of this
eagerly awaited book is impossible. The price re-
presents such an enormous value for the money, that
even those who cannot afford it should endeavour
to make a special effort. The schools of the hour
wax and wane; but Rembrandt is above fashion,
and his superb art and consummate technique in
the wonderful group of works he has left us may be
well studied here. The famous Three Trees we
are permitted to reproduce, is a very fair sample of
the blocks in the text, but printed as they are on
tinted panels, their effect is far more beautiful than
might be gathered from the one that appears here.
It is an epoch-making monograph that every artist
should possess ; for in it quantity and quality go
hand in hand. The last word must be one of
grateful recognition to Mr.Frederic Wedmore for
his discreet and capable editing.
FROM " REMBRANDT, HIS LIFE AND WORKS 1
Elementary De-
sign. By R. G.
Hatton; and
Egyptian Art.
By Charles
Ryan. 2s. 6d.
each. (London:
Chapman & Hall.)
—• The first of
these manuals de-
mands a long no-
tice, which wehope
to give it shortly.
Here it must suf-
fice to praise its
155 illustrations
and the lucid and
practical explana-
tions whichaccom-
pany them. The
second volume is
an excellent epi-
tome of its sub-
ject, and freely
illustrated. Both
are in the new
Science and Art
' THE THREE TREES." (FROM "REMBRANDT, HIS LIFE AND WORKS." HEINEMANN) Series.
107