A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . 163. Carracci] CATALOGUE OF PICTURES 39 the Virgin r. a desk with open book; in the air above Christ 1.,cherubs flying. Figures life size, full , 7 4J by 4 j\. Fitzwilliam. Formerly in the Orleans Gallery. Bought by Viscount Fitzwilliam in 1792 for ^ by Baquoy, Gal. du Palais Royal, vol. I. See Waagen, Treasures, in. 446;Passavant, Tour, II. 57. A genuine and characteristic example, cold in colour and feeling,but distinguished by complete academ
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . 163. Carracci] CATALOGUE OF PICTURES 39 the Virgin r. a desk with open book; in the air above Christ 1.,cherubs flying. Figures life size, full , 7 4J by 4 j\. Fitzwilliam. Formerly in the Orleans Gallery. Bought by Viscount Fitzwilliam in 1792 for ^ by Baquoy, Gal. du Palais Royal, vol. I. See Waagen, Treasures, in. 446;Passavant, Tour, II. 57. A genuine and characteristic example, cold in colour and feeling,but distinguished by complete academic correctness of design and execution. Attributed inLord Fitzwilliams catalogue to Ludovico Carracci, but in the text of the and by Waagen to Agostino. Probably really by Agostino working inLudovicos manner and key of colour. III. 155. Vision of St Francis Xavier. [School of the Carracci.]On ground r., St Francis Xavier, wearing a black habit, kneels onone knee with hands outspread and face upturned: opposite him two boy angels, one offering a lily, the other a flaming , somewhat to the r., a
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