".. [Jozef] Israels paints the floors of his interiors, and produces a perfectly level appearance in them as they gradually retreat from the spectator.. .The effect is gained by a masterly combination of linear and aerial or colour perspective, and by getting the values absolutely true, all of which gives the appearance of depth to the flat surface the painter has to work on. It helps largely to give a feeling of atmosphere to the scene, and we are able to follow the strong light in the foreground as it plays round figures and furniture through finely graduated passages of colour, until it is lost in the dim distance."
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Quote of E. Greenshields Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists, E. B. Greenshields; The Copp, Clark, Co. Limited, Toronto, 1906, p. 142
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