Self-Portrait with Lace Collar
c. 1629
Oil on canvas,
38 x 29 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague
[4] “Now it is evident that in Rembrandt’s system, while the contrasts are not more right than with Veronese, the colours are all wrong from beginning to end.”
John Ruskin
Art Authority.
[7] “Vulgarity, dulness, or impiety will indeed always express themselves through art, in brown and gray, as in Rembrandt.”
Prof. John Ruskin
Modern Painters.
An Old Woman: The Artist's Mother
c. 1629
Oil on panel,
61,3 x 47,3 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
Danaë
1636-47
Oil on canvas,
165 x 203 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
1644
Oil on wood,
83,8 x 65,4 cm
National Gallery, London
Peter Denouncing Christ
1660
Oil on canvas,
154 x 169 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Self-Portrait
1669
Oil on canvas,
86 x 70.5 cm
National Gallery, London
Tags: criticism, painting, quote, Rembrandt, Ruskin, Whistler
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