"As the paintings the 'Night Watch' and the 'Staalmeesters' [famous works of Rembrandt ] are showed now [in the Rijksmuseum, 1894] it is clear to everyone that they have searched but, indeed messed with it, to enable these paintings to do what they can do [visually]. But you see, they did not find a good solution just because they appreciated the museum itself [a rather new building, then!] higher than the paintings themselves. I told at the very first opening of the Rijksmuseum [1885] already everyone who wanted to listen to me: in this room, where the Night Watch' is hanging now, it can never comes to its full right.. ..There must be built for the 'Night Watch' and for the 'Staalmeesters' a separate room each .. ..[with] standing light and the paintings positioned on an easel or standard behind.. ..I just want to add here, that my own studio can serve as a very special model.. ..concerning the sizes and the lighting."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Jozef Israëls
57 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Jozef Israëls →
Related Quotes
"Lord, oh Lord, will I return to you once, being a genuine artist. Will all those Art lovers once behold my works with…"
"It certainly will please you to read that after my small painting ['First Love', c. 1856] what you have seen in Rotte…"
"The title [of an album with prints of Israels and poems after his pictures, made by Nicolaas Beets ] will not be I ho…"
"I take advantage of a painting that I now have at the Paris' exhibition. 3 orphan girls who are sewing in an interior…"
"..I would like to ask your advice as a friend, namely whether you believe I should submit my painting 'Ouden en Jonge…"
"Take care for purity in the paint and not so stinky thick of grease, thin, thin, thin! And just on the light [parts i…"
"In this Summer time of ours with Scheveningen on the shore the bathing time and the hot weather I did very few things…"
"That's how it is One day two paintings were hanging, Right opposite each other Really colorful and beautiful the one …"
"That is always difficult [making a repetition of an sold painting] and can only become a potboiler. (translation from…"
"He [the painter J.A. Kruseman in Amsterdam] is very amicable with his students without exposing his mastery to disdai…"