The early northern painters : studies in the National Gallery (1922)
Peers, Gertrude Katherine · London, Medici Society · leaf 110
ks of in looking at them. In quicknessof brain and mental activity they greatly excel ourexcellent Netherlander, but in sincerity they fallfar below him. In treatment and technique wesee in these small pictures all the distinguishingmarks of the schools north and south of the Alps.Bouts portrait is… … Portrait of a Man No. 9^3 DIRK BOUTS SNOW MOUNTAINS 79 it is like the sitter, honest and thorough. In thesepictures a magnifying-glass only reveals fresh delicaciesand fresh beauties, yet there is no niggling, no over-emphasis ; looked at from a distance these detailsvanish, leaving only the broad…
National Gallery (Great Britain) · Painting
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