Old Masters And New Essays in Art Criticism

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Late in life, once or twice only, the master-painter and the great imaginer coincide, and pictures like "The Syndics" are produced — ^pictures in which imagina- tion and observation work together for the production of the perfect masterpiece ; but it is too late, and the technique, perfect as it is, is no longer the smooth accomplishment of earlier days. No one comprehends and no one cares, and the great painter drops into his neglected grave.
A colourist, save once or twice, Rembrandt never wa
...s. Neither was he, properly speaking, a draughts- man. M. Breal has pointed out that Rembrandt never drew a single figure, there being always some sugges- tion, however slight, of the surroundings in which it is 126 REMBRANDT, placed. It may be as truly said that he never drew an outline. When he seems working in pure line it is not the contour he is drawing — ^his line follows the mass, suggests the direction of folds or the bagging of muscles, breaks, and continues again. The line itself is suggested (or potential) light and shade.

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