Chapter 1

THE GREAT TRIUMVIRATE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Portrait of a Slav Prince _Frontispiece_

2. Portrait of a Woman of Eighty-three

3. A Rabbi Seated, a Stick in his Hands and a High Feather in his Cap

4. The Holy Family with the Angels

5. Portrait of a Savant

6. An Old Man with a Long White Beard, Seated, wearing a Wide Cap, his Hands folded

7. Rembrandt leaning on a Stone Sill

8. Reconciliation between David and Absalom

9. An Old Woman in an Arm Chair, with a Black Head-cloth

10. Minerva

11. Titus in a Red Cap and a Gold Chain

12. Portrait of an Old Lady, Full Face, her Hands folded

13. Portrait of an Old Lady in a Velvet Hood, her Hands folded

14. Flora with a Flower-trimmed Crook

15. The Descent from the Cross

16. A Young Woman in a Red Chair holding a Pink in her Right Hand

_The illustrations in this volume have been engraved and printed at the Menpes Press._

REMBRANDT