RKD STUDIES

p. 101-105 Pieter de Hooch, The Cuijps, Jan Steen

... ys and two girls, all a little short and stocky, at least as the artist depicted them [161].630Aalbert too, like his father and his master, always portrayed his characters squarely, lords or peasants, horsemen, or shepherds. Slenderness and elegance are found only exceptionally in the Dutch race and in its painterly interpreters.Near the festively dressed Troost family, about to go out, a cart is stretched behind a beautiful black horse, of one of those Friesian breeds that Aalbert himself loved to depict. The heads, the costumes, the kind of landscape, a little muted, against which......

... red vest. In the center are four grazing cows and a shepherdess on her donkey. In the second plan a river, trees, a tower...

p. 26-30 Rembrandt

... three are of about the same age, around forty,186 and they are wearing the same costume: black doublet and small cloak, plain white collar, large hat with wide brim and big wig with long hanging curls;187 because unfortunately, in the last twenty years, since the time of the Night Watch, the costumes have changed, the stunning national costumes have disappeared!It so happened that Rembrandt, during his career as a painter, had to conform to three kinds of fashions: when the fashion began, about 1630, people still wore the beautiful sixteenth-century pleated collars, firmly in the air; then, when muslin lost its starch,188 the collar was folded back, soft and pleated, ......

... he son of the old man whom he somewhat resembles from a distance, is naturally more impatient than the others because of his age, and he stands halfway between the old man and the speaker.191 His gaze is also drawn to the imaginary gathering. Like his father, he has refused to wear a wig; he is content with his natural hair and still has a pointed beard on his chin. Both are dressed in black and wear the same large traditional hat as their companions, despite the fact that the other three do wear wigs under those hats.192Behind these five main characters, lined up ......

... n the prodigious breadth of execution, in the harmony of color, which is the simplest in the world: only four notes, interacting and making themselves heard, with their sharps and their flats, in a brown scale: the flesh, heads and hands, and whites are glazed with bister; the hair and backgrounds are glazed with brown; the tapestry has brown in its reds; the blacks have brown accents. It always comes down to: C, E, G, C. No discord. No disparity. A single effect. Light is everywhere and air circulates. In the representation of a real event, painting can go no further....

... tist [23], now as Drost, under the title: Herodias accepting the head of John the Baptist (no. 69) (1).197Van Uitenbogaard, a receiver in Amsterdam, was in fact one of the friends of Rembrandt. He even did him some favors as a result of the series of paintings he painted for Prince Frederik Hendrik. Rembrandt etched the portrait of Uitenbogaard ...------(1) The new cat. transferred Van Uitenbogaard's portrait to the Unknown masters and kept Herodias as Drost....

p. 41-45 Van der Helst, Govert Flinck

... in the Louvre is dated 1653, as Villot's catalog indicates,255 it would predate the large painting in Amsterdam, and instead of a repetition with varia...

... ese two large compositions, the Amsterdam museum has eight portraits by Van der Helst.Portrait of Vice Admiral Egbert M. Kortenaar, chestpiece, life-size, holding his command staff in his left hand. A red cloak is thrown over his shoulder. Gold sash. Very beautiful painting [35].259Portrait of Mary Henrietta Stuart, douairière of William II. She is life-size, full-length, seated, all in white, on an...

... an and a portrait of a woman, both unknown. The portrait of the woman is signed with the initials B v H.267Portrait of Lieutenant Admiral Aart van Nes, and portrait of said admiral's wife [40][41].268 These two pendants, placed next to the Syndics, do credit to this dangerous setting rather well. They are life-size knee pieces. Beautiful hands, beautiful fabrics. The man's head is a little heavy, but the woman's is stunning. Both, with a seascape as background, signed by Backhuizen, are fully sig...

p. 91-95 Gerard Dov, A. van Ostade

... ely the result of the way he paints the backgrounds in light brushstrokes; the general harmony, which results from a dominant (as we would say in music), running over the various notes and ensuring their harmony. His color range is often the same as Rembrandt's, in a red tone that is gilded with luminous accents.An excellent painter, this Van Ostade, and technically one of the most perfect of the Dutch school. The cleverest critics would not know what to attack in his painting, – except for his subjects. But really, for everything ther...

... lette in the semi-darkness and another rubs the colors.536 The Dutch often manufactured their colors themselves, and it is partly to this, that their paintings owe their preservation. In front of the rubbing apprentice is a small black dog. Scattered here and there are various studio bibelots. But almost all these details are drowned in chiaroscuro, the light reserved for the main figure so busy at work.On a table to the left of the window was a signature, which is indecipherable today.537...

... In the courtyard of an inn, sitting on a bench in the shade of trees, two men are chatting: the man on the right, seen in profile and holding his pipe in his hand, is a hunter whose rifle and hunting bag lie nearby; he has a dove-colored hat, a reddish jacket and azure pants, the colors of a shepherd. His partner, for ease of listening, has put away his gray hat, his backpack545 and his pipe, like trophies on a step in front of it; but he has not put the pitcher he holds in his hand th...

p. 81-85 Gerard Dov

... d two more common.First: "No. 65. The famous and well-known Evening School"; so it says in the catalog [113].495 The schoolmaster, wearing a red hat and turned three-quarters to the right, sits in front of his desk, on which are a lit candle and an hourglass. He threatens with his finger to ...

... h a small DOV is attached, can be seen in the lower center, at the base of the table.This important painting brought 4,000 guilders at the auction of Mrs. C. Backer, Leyden, in 1766, and 17,500 guilders at the auction of Van der Pot, Rotterdam, 1808. What is most admired is the combat between the candles; or it is really, if you will, a very skillful piece of virtuoso painting.Personally, I am not very fond of this kind of juggling with paint (1), even though some of the great masters ...------(1) "... We proudly display here...

... The Maternity Room (Smith 38), mentioned by Descamps as being present in 1754 in the house of the widow Van Hoeck, brought 6,000 guilders at the auction of a member of that family, Amsterdam, 1719; afterwards it went to the famous Braamcamp collection, and at Braamcamp's auction in 1771 it was bought for 14,100 guilders for the Tsar of Russia; but the ship carrying it along with many other objects of great value suffered shipwreck and the painting was lost; it had two shutters, painted on the inside by Gerard Dov.503(2) The new cat. states that these portraits are of Pieter van der Werf, mayor of Leiden, and his wife....

... y. She wears a starched cap, forming a crown around her head, a collar of rich guipure lace, a camellia-colored bodice with red and silver accents, with gold embroidery and laces, brown sleeves, large cuffs fringed with guipure lace like the collar...

p. 16-20 Rembrandt

... owned by Mr. Boendermaker".163 It is undoubtedly after this sketch, original or otherwise, of which every trace has disappeared, that Claessens' etching was made.One of the directors of the museum, Praetorius, an old amateur artist who himself, tho...

... cently Mouilleron has made a very good lithograph (2) [12]. What would be welcome, if possible, is a photograph of this masterpiece, with such marvellous gradations of color and especially with the dominant yellows and reds.France should also give itself a copy, of the size of the original, just as it has copies made in the seventeenth century167 of the Raphaels in the Vatican, and there is a copy by Sigalon of Michelangelo's Las...

... ue work really, this Night Watch, and which, despite its almost insane originality, is reminiscent of three or four of the greatest masters: Correggio above all, Giorgione and Titian, Velazquez. The little luminous girl resembles Correggio, yes! in the most radiant pieces of this painter from Parma. Waagen from Berlin also points to this analogy as do other refined connoisseurs. The man in red could be by Titian or Velazquez; Yes!...

p. 11-15 Rembrandt

... o radiant, she overshadows all the objects around her.It is sometimes like this in nature: when a bright ray of sunlight hits something and illuminates it, everything around it disappears from view; when you suddenly enter a room brightly lit with chandeliers and girandoles, at first you see only the light.Above this phantasmagoria is the standard-bearer, Jan Visser Cornelissen;141 his doublet,142 sash and coat, are gray-blue-green, embroidered143 and trimmed......

... blet, wearing a tall gray hat with green feathers, attached by a precious stone to the gold hatband;145 above the man in red a beautiful head of a bearded man, with a broad plain white collar and a hat with large raised brims;146 two or three...

... doelen, from the premises of their company.All professional guilds, all civic associations, all companies of arquebusiers and crossbowmen had their building where they gathered together for their shared business together or amusement. The buildings of arquebusiers or crossbowmen were called Doelen, which means shooting. The large dark vault is an inner door of the establishment. The place where t...

... erenity"; he finds in it "exaggerated brushstrokes that serve no purpose, overly elaborate effects, things which, although he deliberately omitted, are nevertheless culpable ... Rembrandt seemed almost to be in decline [compared to the Anatomy Lesson], for excessive exaggeration is often nothing but weakness. Rembrandt was paid by some militia men to do their portraits. Too carried away by his daydreams of chiaroscuro, he did not give his painting the color the subject required.... etc., etc."154(1) Beschrijving van Amsterdam (Description of Amsterdam), etc.155...

p. 181-185 Van Dyck, various Schools, Unknown Masters, the Print Cabinet

... f the little princess, richly dressed in white satin, with p...

... atham in 1667 (2) [350].451Despite their insignificance, we should mention the paintings by Teniers: No. 273. Peasant house with A man with a pipe and a pot of beer [351].452 No. 274. Company of merry men; painting covered with overpaintings.453 No. 275. Temptation of St. Anthony; 1 foot high by 10 inches wide;454 Smith estimated it at 80 guineas:455 we can see it is not much, although it had ended up in the Braamcamp Collection. And ...

... a Charles V;478 this portrait is very good and could be by Holbein; the others are not.UNKNOWN MASTERS. – This category includes several portraits, which I have already covered, and five paintings of no value, one of which, however, has a title that sounds very interesting: "Rubbens, van Dyck and Brouwer, disguised as peasants, playing car...

p. 171-175 The Portraits, Various Painters, Flemish School

... rwesten, born at The Hague in 1670, died 1750.Portrait of Cornelis Troost, by himself [309].323 We will find of him in the museum of The Hague, fifteen drawings of comic scenes, gathered separately in a small cabinet.324I will add here the portraits catalogued without the painter's name:Knight Frans van Borselen – and Countess Jacoba of Bavaria; old portraits...

... te.332Commander Heraugiere, "who took the place of Breda in 1590 with a peat ship".333The son of Lieuten...

... ch have a small painting by him.361Janson "the elder," born 1729, died 1784: Heemstede Castle. Signed and dated 1765.362L. de Moni, born (in Breda) in 1698, died (in Leiden) in 1771: A Woman, watering flowers.363 Louis de Moni was a pupil of Philip van Dijk of Amsterdam, a follower of Mieris.M...

p. 161-165 The Marine Painters, a Painter of Living Birds, a Painter of Dead Game, the Painters of Fruits and Flowers

... sublime. Here, by Hondecoeter, we have a mother hen whose tenderness can rival that of the Madonna della Sedia [274]. She has sat down carefully, her wings spread, under which the wakeful heads of the chicks emerge; on her back sits the privileged bambino; she tries not to move, the good mother!Of the eight Hondecoeters in the Amsterdam Museum, the most famous is the one called by the sacred ......

... sterdam museum. No. 123, Landscape with a peacock, a peahen and exotic birds, is superior both in breath of execution and overall harmony. The two peacocks are on the right; on the left, a white hen, surrounded by her chicks; in the center, one of these cheeky chicks, with a color of dead leaves and a red head, who will become a beautiful rooster, playfully teases the peacock. Powerful painting, from the Lormier collection. About 4 feet wide and over 3 feet high [277].237No. 127, Landscape with Dead Poultry, is about the same size as The Floating Feather; it shows a heron, a goose, ducks and, on a t...

... esents the vigilance of the Grand Pensionary ...------(1) The new cat. includes a ninth painting by Hondecoeter: Battle of birds.244(2) It is surprising that the new cat. also lists Antwerp as Asselijn's place of birth, while one of the books of the citizenry of Amsterdam records that he became a citizen on January 24, 1652: “Joannes Asselijn, van Diepen.” - See Scheltema: Redevoering over het leven en de verdiensten van Rembrand, etc., (Discourse on the life and merits of Rembrand, etc.), Amsterdam, 1853; page 69.245 – Asselijn's Swan is from the Gildemeester auction, 1800, Amsterdam, 95 guilders....