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Line & form (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 288

An illustration from Line & form, 1902, leaf 288
design carried into every detail withmost careful draughtsmanship, and yet beautifulin chiaroscuro and grave colour, there is no finerexample than J. Van Eycks portrait-picture ofJan Arnolfini and his Wife in our NationalGallery. Such pictures as these would tell as 267 VAN EYCK: portrait of JAN… … VER MEER OF DELFT: lADY AT A SPINET. (NATIONAL GALLERY.) picture the little mirror reflecting the figures shinesupon the wall, a picture within a picture. It is instructive from any point of view to studythe quantities and relations of colour, and theirtones and values, in such works. 269 VER MEER…

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