The Young Bull when he completed it; he died in 1654, before he reached 30. The painting was highly admired in the 18th and 19th centuries; in the 1870s the French artist and critic Eugène Fromentin asserted confidently that it, Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" and his "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (also in the Mauritshuis) were the three most famous paintings in the Netherlands. The painting was enlarged by Potter, who added extra strips of canvas on both sides and at the top to his original composition, which just included the bull itself. The village in the background is Rijswijk, between
The Anatomy Lesson (Roth novel) three were collected and republished in 1985 as "Zuckerman Bound". Republication moved some critics to reassess this third entry; again in "The New Yorker", John Updike wrote, "In toto, "Zuckerman Bound" shows the author's always ebullient invention and artful prose at their most polished and concentrated, the topic of authorship clearly being, to this author, a noble one." In "The New York Times Book Review", critic Harold Bloom said of the three collected Zuckerman novels, ""Zuckerman Bound" merits something reasonably close to the highest level of esthetic praise for tragicomedy." The Anatomy Lesson (Roth novel) The Anatomy Lesson is a