DOI Kapitel:
Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and their Works
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61295#0511
REMBRANDT.
489
consummate management of light and shadow, together with his free
handling of his point, produces wonderful results; he makes a con-
fusion, but brings a surprising and perfect effect out of it. Both as
a painter and engraver his portraits are of the very highest excel-
lence. His domestic scenes are full of spirit, and have an irresistible
RAPE OF GANYMEDE. BY REMBRANDT.
Dresden Gall.
power, and his compositions of a higher order seem ro have been
executed by a magic needle. Such are the plates of “ Christ heal-
ing the Sick,” and the “ Raising of Lazarus.” The first of these is
known as the “ Hundred Guilders Print,” that being the price set
upon it by the master. A good impression of it is now worth about
nine times that sum. Of his portraits in etching, those of Jan Lutma,
489
consummate management of light and shadow, together with his free
handling of his point, produces wonderful results; he makes a con-
fusion, but brings a surprising and perfect effect out of it. Both as
a painter and engraver his portraits are of the very highest excel-
lence. His domestic scenes are full of spirit, and have an irresistible
RAPE OF GANYMEDE. BY REMBRANDT.
Dresden Gall.
power, and his compositions of a higher order seem ro have been
executed by a magic needle. Such are the plates of “ Christ heal-
ing the Sick,” and the “ Raising of Lazarus.” The first of these is
known as the “ Hundred Guilders Print,” that being the price set
upon it by the master. A good impression of it is now worth about
nine times that sum. Of his portraits in etching, those of Jan Lutma,