and positions,or sketched beggars orfigures in street scenesfrom models that came easily to hand. He was stillstruggling with technique ; his etching was by no meansas successful as he wished. About 1630 he began toobtain greater mastery of the art, and besides etchingheads and single figures he… … Fig. 77. Rembrandt van Rijn : Beggars. REMBRANDT 169 is shown in the five portraits of himself (fig. 78), finishedduring the year, and in the numerous figures of beggars(fig. 77). These last are literal and unbeautiful repro-ductions of the reality that appealed to his artistic sense,entirely free…
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