The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . although the tablet so ascribes it, be given toan old-Flemish master — it bears more the impressof German workmanship under North-Netherlandinfluences. The coats of arms, moreover, displayedin the foreground, point to Silesia and suggests a new name among the largenumber of anonimi for the unknown painter ofthis picture. He would call him the Master ofthe Big Nose, and claims to have found a relatedwork in the Gallery of
The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained . although the tablet so ascribes it, be given toan old-Flemish master — it bears more the impressof German workmanship under North-Netherlandinfluences. The coats of arms, moreover, displayedin the foreground, point to Silesia and suggests a new name among the largenumber of anonimi for the unknown painter ofthis picture. He would call him the Master ofthe Big Nose, and claims to have found a relatedwork in the Gallery of Modena, the figures ofwhich have also long noses. The same criticascribes a very fine, small altarpiece (No. 567 and570) to Cornelis Engelbrechtsen, the teacher ofLukas van Ley den — a rare find, if true, for onlytwo of his works are known to exist in Holland. A large triptych (Nos. 579-581) is by Hierony-mus or Jeroen Bosch, the fantastic painter of queercreatures and monstrosities, who satirised humanfrailties by picturing the analogous torments to beexpected hereafter. The middle panel shows theLast Judgment, the left wing Paradise and the Fall. P1ETER BE HOOCH FAMILY GROUPPlate xxvi Imperial Academy of Fine Arts Imperial Hcaoems of jftne Hrts 187 of man, the right wing Purgatory and Hell. Itis a characteristic work which plainly shows thefount where from the later Flemings, PieterBreughel and the younger Teniers, and also Durerand Cranach drew their inspiration. Quite a chronological jump is made when wefind hanging in this same partition a masterpieceby the 17th century Pieter de Hooch. This Fam-ily Group (No. 715. Plate XXVI) gives agraphic description of the social life of the Dutchpatricians of the 17th century. The scene is theback yard of the home of the old gentleman whosits at the teatable. Visitors approach, and onehas departed through the open door in the fencewhich separates the rear yards of the abuttinghouses. The entire scene is bathed in sunlight, andthe
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