Great masters of Dutch and Flemish painting (1909)
Bode, Wilhelm von, 1845-1929, Clarke, Margaret L · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 212
personal mood, though indeed reservedly and softly.He does not impress us like Rembrandt does by his in-tensity, but by his modest way of hiding himself behind agreat representation of nature. But this attracts us tothis lonely enthusiast for great landscapes, to this melan-choly individual/ whose… … JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 153 world must have bitterly deceived him; misfortune andenvy must have persecuted him, for sorrowful feelings neverquite to leave him, even in the calm of nature, where hefound refuge and peace. If we question his biographers and documents abouthim, the scanty intelligence we…
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