The old masters of Belgium and Holland <Les maîtres d'autrefois> (1882)
Fromentin, Eugène, 1820-1876, Robbins, Mary Caroline, 1841-1912 · Boston, J. R. Osgood and company · leaf 66
d among the best academy pieces that Rubensever painted, from the free and sure manner with which thepainter has brushed them in, doubtless in a few hours, at the firstpainting, with the wet paint clear, even abundant, not too fluid,not thick, neither too modelled nor too rough. It is Jordaens… … THE r^-^ yPUBU TILDEN FQi RUBENS A 7 MECHLIN. 45 Scandinavian head, his flowing beard, his golden hair, his brighteyes in his flushed countenance, his great sea-boots and red gar-ment, is overwhelnjing. And, as usual in all Rubenss pictureswhere excessive red is employed as a quietus, it is this…
Painting, Flemish · Painting, Dutch
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