or pencil. In order to form an adequate idea not merely
of his manner but of the whole volume of his production, it
is essential to take his drawings into consideration. For
only a small proportion of them are projects for paintings;
by far the greater number--in fact thousands--are inde-
pendent pictures, which he never executed in color.

Marstrand's capacity for making by the thou-
sand is what raises him above the many talented painters of
the Danish school and distinguishes him as one of its few
real geniuses. The comparison, often applied but almost
always misused, of a painter's imagination with a kaleido-
scope, applies to Marstrand, and applies better to him than
to any other Danish artist. It was because of the truly
kaleidoscopic play of his imagination that it could not only
mould the material with which it was filled, but constantly
remould it into new pictures, always greater than the old,
till they attained what justly may be called the grand style.

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