. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. aits, such as Corneilleby Francois de Troy, Moliere by Mignard, Richelieu and Maz-arin by Philippe de Champagne, Louis XIV. by the modern pictures are works by all the celebrities; aportrait of Napoleon, First Consul, by Gerard; five paintings byIngres; works by Meissonier, Rousseau, and Jules Dupre; tenpictures by Decamps, including the Corps de Garde maro-cain, of the Salon of 1834, which cost 80,000 francs at the saleof the Marquis Maison; Boillys Cafe Corazza in 1820. In1848, when the mob invaded the Palais Royal, an anonymousvisit
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. aits, such as Corneilleby Francois de Troy, Moliere by Mignard, Richelieu and Maz-arin by Philippe de Champagne, Louis XIV. by the modern pictures are works by all the celebrities; aportrait of Napoleon, First Consul, by Gerard; five paintings byIngres; works by Meissonier, Rousseau, and Jules Dupre; tenpictures by Decamps, including the Corps de Garde maro-cain, of the Salon of 1834, which cost 80,000 francs at the saleof the Marquis Maison; Boillys Cafe Corazza in 1820. In1848, when the mob invaded the Palais Royal, an anonymousvisitor took a fancy to Boillys picture, cut it out of the framein small pieces, and carried it off. After passing through mys-terious adventures, which have not yet found a historian, thefragments of the picture were all found and carefully piecedtogether, and in 1875 trie picture was sold to the Due dAu-male. We now come to the two works by Raphael, which are nat-urally considered the rarest treasures, if not the finest pictures, CHANTILLY. -99. PORTRAIT OF SIMONETTA VESPUCCI, IN THE CHANTILLY ART GALLERY. in the Chantilly gallery. One of these pictures is known asthe Vierge dOrleans, and was bought by the Due dAuraalein 1869, at the sale of the Delessert collection, for 150,000francs ; the other, representing the Three Graces, and in-spired by an antique marble group which Raphael saw atSiena when he was helping Pinturicchio paint his frescos in1506, cost the Due dAumale 600,000 francs. This little pict- 300 ART AND CRITICISM. ure, scarcely four inches square, was once in the Borghese Pal-ace. About 1797 it came into the possession of Fabre, apainter of Montpellier, from whom Woodburn, the well-knownLondon dealer, bought it. Woodburn sold it to Sir ThomasLawrence, at whose sale it was purchased by the banker-poetSamuel Rogers. Subsequently it was bought by Lord Dudley,and in 1881 M. Thibaudeau had it for sale once more. , the London dealer, came over to Paris to showt
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