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Old Masters. ANTWERP. 13. Route. 189
Room N: Collection of Burgomaster F. van Ertborn (4. 1840),
comprising chiefly pictures of the 15th and 16th centuries. The bust
of the donor, by J. Geefs, is at the entrance. To theright: 224, Justus
van Ghent (?), Sacrament of the Eucharist; 383-385. Flemish School
(not Gerard van der Meire), Bearing of the Cross (winged picture;
Quinten Matsys @), Portrait of Peter Gillis, the
Lucas van Leyden(?), SS. Luke, Mark, and Mat-
, 264 (furthe ron), Jan Mostaert (2), Portraits; between
ese 412 Good copy after Jan van Eyck, Virgin with the Canon Van
aes -aele (original it in "ia museum at Bruges, Pe 32) — 199. Hans
Holbein the Younger (?), Miniature portrait; 123. H. and V. Diin-
uwege, Holy Family, from the church of St. Nicholas at Calear;
Follower of Gerard Da (Ambr. Benson?), Miraculous ap-
n of the Virgin (‘Deipara Virgo’). — Quinten Matsys, *241,
Christ as judge, Mary in prayer, two heads remarkable for
their beauty and dignity (replicas in the London National Gallery) ;
243. Mary Magdalen; 250. Quinten Matsys (?), Head
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395 eoger van der Weyden(?), Sacrament of the Eucharist,
flanked is two wings representing the six other Romish sacraments
(to the right, Ordination, Marriage, Extreme Unction; to the left,
Baptism, Confirmation, Penance).
The e is in a spacious Gothic church, the architecture of which
to unite the grou The crucifixion in the foreground introduces
i ent into the picture; and the spectator can
with the distress of the women mourning there,
joy which lights up the features of the dying
p reme unction. The angels above the various
in symbolical colou are particularly well drawn. Jean
)t (4437-60), Bishop of Tournai (where Roger was born), is indicated
i r of this painting by his coat-of-arms on the central
: Martin Conway's ‘Early Flemish Artists’.
98. Dierick Bouts (?), Madonna; Roger van der Weyden (?),
Portrait of Philip the Good of Burgundy ; 440. Jan van Eyck,
St. Barbara seated in front of a Gothic church-tower, an unfinished
sketch of great peauty (4437); *396. Roger van der Weyden (?),
Annunciation, a small picture of most delicate execution, formerly
in the C onvent of Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden; #441. Jan van
k, Madonna in a blue robe, and the Child in her arms playing
vith a rosary; to the right a fountain; her feet rest on rich drapery
ld by two angels behind her, The Be ture, which bears the painter’s
name and motto, and the date 1439, resembles Stephan Lochner’s
Madonna of the Violet in the Arc hiepiscopal Museum at Cologne. —
#39. Fr. Clouet, Portrait of Francis lJ. of France when Dauphin;
Gerard David, 179. Mary and John on the way to the Sepulchre,
{80. The just judges. — 3. Fra Angelico da Fiesole(?), St. Romuald,
Abbot of Camaldoli, reproaching the Emp. Otho IL. for the murder
of the Roman senator Crescentius; *257-260. Simone Martini of
Siena (d. ca, 1844), Annunciation, Crucifixion, and Descent from |