166. A CAPUCHIN FRIAR.

_Rembrandt_ (Dutch: 1606-1669). _See_ 45.

Michel ascribes this portrait to the year of Rembrandt's tribulations.

"At this period, when his emotions were so deeply stirred by the

vision of a compassionate Saviour, he felt a kindred attraction for

those mystic souls who sought in solitude and prayer a closer communion

with the Christ to whom he felt himself drawn by his own sorrows. The

'Capuchin' in the National Gallery has suffered from time, but the

devout gravity of the face is finely expressed" (_Rembrandt: his Life,

his Work, and his Time_, ii. 126).

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