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 88
, the colours have acoquettish effect. Their spirit is so far removed fromRembrandts that, for a time, they were not even con-sidered to be Dutch, and a second Nicolas Maes, theBrussels Maes, was invented. But the persons repre-sented, as far as can be ascertained, are always Dutch,mostly from… … X. MAES OLD LADY Berlin To face p. 52 JAN VERMEER VAN DELFT 53 Maes, but he went the same way as all his country-men who survived Rembrandt; they all sank into afeeble mannerism, which scarcely gives us an idea of thegrand, masterly art of their earlier period, the periodinfluenced by Rembrandt.…
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