Excerpt from Exhibition of Drawings by the Dutch Masters Drawings, painted many pictures with at least as marked an economy of means as he has used in the few drawings we know, and of which the present Exhibition of this Club affords at least one admirable example. His science of large design and the expressive completeness of his gradations of tone enabled him - often in picture and drawing alike - to dispense with the easier attraction of various colour, so that even a modern master of colour, Theodore Rousseau, was wont to hold him up as a model to his. 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.