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Letter I. LATER NETHERLANDISH DRAWINGS.
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Teniers.—1. A Knifegrinder at his work. Slight and broad,
in black chalk.
2. Landscape, with a village church. Of similar treatment.
Peter de Hooghe.—A woman, taken in profile, instructing
four little girls in the art of knitting. The heads are very ani-
mated. The light, falling in, is admirably expressed, though only
in red chalk. Drawings by this master, especially of such a size,
are very rare.
Philip Wouvermans.—Camp scene, with six horsemen, and
other figures on foot, A trumpeter is blowing his instrument.
This drawing, which is executed with great breadth only with the
brush and Indian ink—the masses of light and shade admirably
indicated—is a striking contrast to his delicately-finished pictures.
It is well known how seldom drawings by this master occur.
Hobrema,—A water-mill, with reflections. Of admirable chiaro-
scuro, and broad and spirited execution with chalk and the stump.
Exceedingly rare.
C. Poelemburg.—The Finding of Moses. His love of depict-
ing the female form undraped is here indulged by representing
Pharaoh's daughter and her companions as bathing. In sepia, and
of the same tenderness and delicacy as his oil pictures.
Franz van Mieris the Elder.—1. An old woman seated in
prayer. Opposite to her a child in strong lighting. In black chalk
and the stump, and of such masterly treatment of chiaroscuro
as to approach in effect the etchings of his master Rembrandt.
Upon parchment, and signed " Mieris."
2. His own portrait, marvellously soft and delicate ; in the same
style and on the same material as the foregoing, and obviously the
original of the engraving by A. Blotelinck, which is preserved
with it,
Jan Lievens.—1. A male portrait, almost to the knees. Of
great truth of nature, and carefully and softly treated with black
chalk and the stump.
2. A landscape. In front a drawbridge ; houses and trees be-
hind. An effect of chiaroscuro is here produced with sepia, bistre,
and a little colour, worthy of Rembrandt.
School of Rembrandt.—View of Bacharach on the Rhine.
The foreground in clear light, the background in chiaroscuro. Of
masterly execution in bistre and Indian ink.
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Teniers.—1. A Knifegrinder at his work. Slight and broad,
in black chalk.
2. Landscape, with a village church. Of similar treatment.
Peter de Hooghe.—A woman, taken in profile, instructing
four little girls in the art of knitting. The heads are very ani-
mated. The light, falling in, is admirably expressed, though only
in red chalk. Drawings by this master, especially of such a size,
are very rare.
Philip Wouvermans.—Camp scene, with six horsemen, and
other figures on foot, A trumpeter is blowing his instrument.
This drawing, which is executed with great breadth only with the
brush and Indian ink—the masses of light and shade admirably
indicated—is a striking contrast to his delicately-finished pictures.
It is well known how seldom drawings by this master occur.
Hobrema,—A water-mill, with reflections. Of admirable chiaro-
scuro, and broad and spirited execution with chalk and the stump.
Exceedingly rare.
C. Poelemburg.—The Finding of Moses. His love of depict-
ing the female form undraped is here indulged by representing
Pharaoh's daughter and her companions as bathing. In sepia, and
of the same tenderness and delicacy as his oil pictures.
Franz van Mieris the Elder.—1. An old woman seated in
prayer. Opposite to her a child in strong lighting. In black chalk
and the stump, and of such masterly treatment of chiaroscuro
as to approach in effect the etchings of his master Rembrandt.
Upon parchment, and signed " Mieris."
2. His own portrait, marvellously soft and delicate ; in the same
style and on the same material as the foregoing, and obviously the
original of the engraving by A. Blotelinck, which is preserved
with it,
Jan Lievens.—1. A male portrait, almost to the knees. Of
great truth of nature, and carefully and softly treated with black
chalk and the stump.
2. A landscape. In front a drawbridge ; houses and trees be-
hind. An effect of chiaroscuro is here produced with sepia, bistre,
and a little colour, worthy of Rembrandt.
School of Rembrandt.—View of Bacharach on the Rhine.
The foreground in clear light, the background in chiaroscuro. Of
masterly execution in bistre and Indian ink.