Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Complete Work of Rembrandt, Vol. 7: History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, With a Study of His Life and His Art
The costume is Very broadly sketched in with the most consummate mastery; the head, very carefully elaborated, recalls Vandyck in its distinction of pose; the dog, a white and tan King Charles is excellently characterised with a few fat touches. It is only the hands and arms that affect one ilisagreeably, by reason of the haste and indifference with which they are dashed in, and their leathery colom'. Ft is obvious that here we have merely the priming.
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