The art of the Dresden gallery; notes and observations upon the old and modern masters and paintings in the royal collection . dling in the Venus Reposing are excellent, — Repose is hardly an adequate term for the aban-doned intoxication suggested by the study of thenude. The overturned wine-jar and empty tazzaindicate an orgie, and the figure of Venus is thatof a person in a drunken lethargy. Yet the figureis beautiful in spite of these Bacchic features. Theface is of the aimless stupid type which connotes thesatisfied animal nature. The first example of Pous-sins Adoration of the Magi is her
The art of the Dresden gallery; notes and observations upon the old and modern masters and paintings in the royal collection . dling in the Venus Reposing are excellent, — Repose is hardly an adequate term for the aban-doned intoxication suggested by the study of thenude. The overturned wine-jar and empty tazzaindicate an orgie, and the figure of Venus is thatof a person in a drunken lethargy. Yet the figureis beautiful in spite of these Bacchic features. Theface is of the aimless stupid type which connotes thesatisfied animal nature. The first example of Pous-sins Adoration of the Magi is here, — the compo-sition was repeated later in a similar picture in theLouvre. The pale blue robe in this painting is toocrude. A very good example of Poussins classicalachievement is seen in the Nymph Syrinx pursuedby Pan. The Narcissus gazing at his own reflectionin the brook is an early picture, if executed byPoussin at all. There is a curious imaginative bitcalled the Kingdom of Flora, in which nymphs areseen changed to flowers, according to one of OvidsMetamorphoses. There is a striking portrait of Poussin himself,. NICOLAS POUSSIN. PAN AND SYRINX Ube Jrencb an5 Bnglisb Scbool6 ui executed by a pupil, and with the inscription SiNomen a me quceris N. Poussin 1640, F. Thereis an old engraving from this picture which bearsthe signature V. E. Pinxit. It is rich in tone,and an interesting likeness of this brilliant French-man. There are also four landscapes by GaspardDughet, uninteresting and uninspired, as are mostof his heavy studies of nature. The Holy Family, by Charles Le Brun, is good;it is academic, but a pleasing composition. This isalmost a replica of a picture of the same subjectby the same painter in the Louvre. Claude Gellee, or Claude Lorrain, was born inChampagne, in the Duchy of Lorraine, in 1600. Hehad little schooling, and in fact, spelt his own namein various ways, so that when he came to make hiswill, before his death, he had to specify that thecorrect spell
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