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Excerpt from The Complete Work of Rembrandt, Vol. 3: History, Description and Heliographic Reproduction of All the Master's Pictures, With a Study of His Life and His Art In the case of an artist so intensely subjective as Rembrandt, whose works reflect his inner life as in a mirror, it is not surprising that the personality of the young girl who had won his heart, and with whom he spent the happy years that preceded her all too early death, should have played an important part in his artistic production. From his first acquaintance with her until her death, and for some time after it, a period of over ten years, we recognise her, not only in portraits, but in compositions, in studies, in pictures, drawings and etchings. At an earlier stage of this work, when enumerating the series of pictures painted shortly before and simultaneously with Saskia's first appearance in Rembrandt's work, from another youthful female sitter, Rembrandt's sister Lysbeth, as I endeavoured to prove her, I found it necessary to mention the earliest portraits of Saskia, and to describe the appearance of the two young women, in order to differentiate their portraits. It will be enough, therefore, to refer my readers now to these passages in vol. I (chap. II). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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