. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. No. 26 PRISONER BEFORE ANEMPEROR GERMAN SCHOOL (XV Century) GERMAN SCHOOL (XV Century) No. 26—PRISONER UK FORK AN EMPEROR ( Panel) Height, 2(5^ inches-; length, 2T/> inches This seems to he a companion picture to No. 25 andto represent another incident in the story of S. Cath-erine. The man in scarlet and gold robe, who appearedin the other picture with his hand on his heart, is herebeing dragged by two soldiers into the presenee of acrowned monarch, seated on a throne. Presumably itis the Emperor Maximinius, thou
. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. No. 26 PRISONER BEFORE ANEMPEROR GERMAN SCHOOL (XV Century) GERMAN SCHOOL (XV Century) No. 26—PRISONER UK FORK AN EMPEROR ( Panel) Height, 2(5^ inches-; length, 2T/> inches This seems to he a companion picture to No. 25 andto represent another incident in the story of S. Cath-erine. The man in scarlet and gold robe, who appearedin the other picture with his hand on his heart, is herebeing dragged by two soldiers into the presenee of acrowned monarch, seated on a throne. Presumably itis the Emperor Maximinius, though, while his right handgrasps a sword, he holds in his left a blaek orb, sur-mounted by a cross. lie is attired in a bluish-green robewith a broad white collar and a broad border of whiteat the bottom of the skirt. The throne is set beneath ared canopy in a Gothic interior, which includes an archedentrance and a mullioned window. The subject possiblydepicts the fate of S. Catherines lover, who yielded toher influence and embraced the No. 27LAX DSC APE WITH FIGURES BY JOSSE DE MOMPER AND PIETER BRUEGHEL III JOSSE DE MOMPEB AND PIETEK BRUEGHEL III Flemish: 15(54—1(534; 1589—1638No. 27—LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES (Panel) Height, 24:V| indies; length, 40:; ( inches The landscape, painted by l)c Momper, shows on theright of the foreground a rocky hank crowned with aclump of oaks, from which a pathway descends. Fartherhack is a hillside, covered with fir trees, and beyond thissweeps a view of valley, cut by a winding stream. Thevista terminates in ranges of blue mountains. The fig-ures, supplied by Brueghel, include a woman and childapproaching by the pathway, on the right, a group thatis composed in the foreground. The center is occupiedby a woman in red cloak and blue skirt, accompaniedby a spaniel. She stands near an ass, laden with pan-niers, in each of which is a baby. On the right are dis-posed a man, a child and two women, one of the lat-ter being engaged in washin
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