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Old Masters. ANTWERP. 13. Route. 195
unutterable; her head is thrown back, her arms wildly extended. The
picture is chaste, the colouring subdued (now unfortunately faded); yet
the tendency of the master’s school to a full and somewhat sensual out-
line apparent, al one the work does not altogether lack sentiment.
8. Jordaens, St. Ives. — *403. Van Dyck, Entombment: the
finely-balanced SonCE OD of tt <pr ressive picture and its careful
<ecution, in which the effect of brilliant colouring is intentionally
renounced, assure it a place among the masterpieces of the first rank
(ca. 1629). — 407. Van Dyck, Portrait of a little girl, the dogs by
Jan Fyt; 381. J. ee den Hoecke, St. Francis.
#305. Rubens, Last Communion of St. Francis; recalling Agos-
tino Carac Jommunion of St. Jerome.
ceiving his last sacrament, produces
was painted in 1619, and Rubens
still preserved Ctot volcomen
1e@ handt gemaeckt’, i.e. ‘in full
a most painful impr¢
ived for it 750 florins;
alinghe van een stuk schilderye door my
payment for a piece of painting done by my hand’). Comp. p. ly.
841. Corn. de Vos, Family group. — *104. Corn. de Vos, Abr.
Grapheus, servant (‘knaap’) of the Guild of St. Luke (p. 182);
he is hung with med and stands beside a table on which is
plate belonging to the demy (painted in 1620); 335. Fr. Sny-
ans and dogs; ¢ Van Dyck, Portrait of a boy (school-
piece); 24. Th. Bo ans, Pool of Bethesda (1675); 402. Van
Dyck, Jan Malderus, Bishop of Antwerp (d. a 336. Fr. Sny-
ders, Kitchen; 734. Van Dyck (7), Portrait of a priest; 406. Van
Dyck, Christ on the Cross, a reduced imitation of Rubens’s well
known picture (No. 348; p. 193), painted about 1627. Over the
entrance: 707. Rubens, Baptism of Christ (painted in Mantua ca.
1604), with figures over lifesize; it has unfortunately been freely
retouched. ‘The group of five men dressing themselves, to the
right, seems to have been suggested by the celebrated Bathing Sol-
diers of Michael Angelo.
Room F. To the right: 185. A. Goubau, Art studies in Rome
(1662).
Room G. Dutch School of the 17th century. To the right: 679.
M. Molenaer, Village fair; 125. Corn. Dusart, Interior; *488.
Half-length portrait of a fisher- boy (the ‘Strandlooper van Haar-
lem’), ascribed to Frans Hals; above, 1341. Gov. Flinck,
Portrait- group. — Ph. Wouverman, 755. Cavalry skirmish, 704.
Wunting; Jan Steen, *338, Samson and the Philistin 339. Rustic
wedding ; 293. Rembrandt, Portrait of Saskia van enburgh, his
first wife (a repetition with alterations of the picture at Cassel ;
1633); #715. Sal. van Ruysdael, Dutch river, with ferry; 466. Adr.
van Ostade, Smoker *705. Rembrandt, Eleazar Swalmius,
the preacher (1637) G. Terburg, Mandolin-player; 10. Nic.
Berchem, Italian landscape; #628. Jac. Backer, Portrait ; 790. N. Koe-
dyck, Interior; 196. @. Houckgeest, Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at
Delft; 637. Nic. Berchem, Italian landscape with cattle; 500.
Ph. Wouverman, Riders resting ; 390. A. van der Neer, Landscape
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