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Rembrandt

CHAPTER III
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If all Rembrandt's pictures were destroyed, if every record of them by photograph or copy was blotted out, the etchings alone would form so ample a testimony to his genius that the name of Rembrandt would still remain among the foremost artists of the world.
Rembrandt enjoyed a period of popularity with his pictures, followed by years of decline and neglect, when lesser and more accommodating men ousted him from popular favour.

But from first to last the products of his needle were appreciated by his contemporaries, even if he himself did not set great store by them.

He began to etch early in life: he ceased only when his eyesight failed.

He found in etching a congenial and natural means of self-expression.

His artistic fecundity threw them off in regal profusion.
The mood seized him: he would take a prepared plate, and sometimes, having swiftly spent his emotion, he did not trouble to do more than indicate the secondary incidents in a composition.


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