Aantekening betreffende Matthijs Maris after 1904

This page of notes, 'Aantekening betreffende Matthijs Maris' was written by Pieter Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, sometime during his life. Looking at this handwriting, I can just imagine him hunched over his desk with a quill or a scratchy pen in hand. The text isn't an artwork as such, but something more like a series of annotations, likely about the works of Matthijs Maris in the Duth Exhibition at the White Chapel Art gallery in 1904. It seems he saw art as something to categorize and describe, like specimens in a natural history book. I am curious as to what he means by 'Dancing four decorative pomels in dend oil-colom'? Or, 'The Castle. A fantasy in silvergrey, with a glassily castle in the background'? In a way, it reminds me of the way artists like to write about their process, or scribble ideas on the backs of canvases – a raw, unfiltered glimpse into a creative mind at work, capturing thoughts and impressions. It shows the way artworks talk to each other and give us the inspiration to keep making our own things.