Catalog of Portraits, 1909-1911, 1929 [page 109]

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red is imaginatively wrought into other parts of the design. They play of colour, clarifying obscurities, interpreting poetic essentials. yields sheer delight. Luminous browns answer to rich or muted reds, glowing or shadowed gold to pearl-gray. The name of Rembrandt, who remains as an effulgence in the world is, as it were, authoratively [sic] inscribed all over the canvas. The picture is now on its way to America, where it passes into the collection of Mr. H. C. Frick, who already possesses the deeply moving and beautiful self-portrait of 1658. The only other equestrian portrait by Rembrandt, is the so-called "Marshal Turenne, in the collection of the Countess Cowper at Paushauger[?].



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