. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. torical portraits in crayons,and at one end of the gallery is a bust of Henri IV. in coloredwax, an inestimable contemporaneous document. Without staying to examine the excellent arrangement andthe splendor of the decoration of the rooms in which the DuedAumale has lodged his works of art, let us take a very sum-mary view of the art collections, beginning with the collectionof drawings. This was begun in 1861, by the purchase en blocof the Frederic Reiset collection, composed of 381 drawings,chosen after the careful sifting of several thousands. Th
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. torical portraits in crayons,and at one end of the gallery is a bust of Henri IV. in coloredwax, an inestimable contemporaneous document. Without staying to examine the excellent arrangement andthe splendor of the decoration of the rooms in which the DuedAumale has lodged his works of art, let us take a very sum-mary view of the art collections, beginning with the collectionof drawings. This was begun in 1861, by the purchase en blocof the Frederic Reiset collection, composed of 381 drawings,chosen after the careful sifting of several thousands. Thenfollowed the purchase of the Wellesley collection, and of Alex-andre Lenoirs collection of French crayon portraits, which was CHANTILLY. 295 originally sold in London in 1836 to the Duke of the Bernal and Northwick collections the Due dAumalealso obtained many fine drawings, and now the Chantilly collec-tion of crayons can rival the collections of the Louvre and theAlbertina at Vienna. The fashion of portrait heads executed. prudhons painting, the awakening of psyche, in the chantilly art gallery. in crayons of two or three colors was set by Holbein in Eng-land ; the French took it up, and under the reign of the Valoisthe fashion became a craze, and every courtier made a collec-tion of portraits of contemporaries, many of which have comedown to our own day, carefully preserved by families and pri-vate and public libraries. The fashion lasted from the time ofFrancois I. to the time of Louis XIII., and the fashionableartists were the Clouets, who came from Flanders, the Du- 296 ART AND CRITICISM. monstiers, the Ouesnels, and the Laomeaus— for there werewhole families of crayon workers. The last of the school wasRobert Nanteuil. The gem of the Due dAumales collectionof crayon portraits is that of Isabelle de la Paix, the daughterof Henri II., who was married to Philip II. of Spain. The girlis represented at the age of fifteen, and the portrait, by themost famou
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