. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. No. 31 MADONNA AND CHILD WITHS. JOHN AND CHERUBS BY LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER German (Saxon School) : 1472—1553 No. 31—MADONNA AND CHILD WITH S. JOHN AND CHERUBS (Canvas—transferred from Panel)Height, 46^j inches; width, 32 |j inches Three cherubs with blue-green wings, floating against anolive background, suspend a crimson velvet dossal overthe sacred group. Madonna is seated, facing three-quar-ters to the left, with her arms tenderly encircling theChrist as He stands on her lap, offering an ap
. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. No. 31 MADONNA AND CHILD WITHS. JOHN AND CHERUBS BY LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER German (Saxon School) : 1472—1553 No. 31—MADONNA AND CHILD WITH S. JOHN AND CHERUBS (Canvas—transferred from Panel)Height, 46^j inches; width, 32 |j inches Three cherubs with blue-green wings, floating against anolive background, suspend a crimson velvet dossal overthe sacred group. Madonna is seated, facing three-quar-ters to the left, with her arms tenderly encircling theChrist as He stands on her lap, offering an apple to theinfant S. John, who looks up lovingly while resting ahand on a lambs head. The Virgins yellow hair, smoothover the head and falling in ringlets upon the shoulder,is covered with a transparent veil that reaches down tothe almond-shaped brown eyes, which are looking out ofthe picture. She is clad in a blue robe that reveals aglimpse of filmy material at the neck. Signed at the upper right with the winged serpentand dated No. 32A BACCHANAL BY NICOLAS POUSSIN NICOLAS POUSSIN French: 1593—1665 No. 32—A BACCHANAL (Canvas)Height, 38 inches- length, 54 inches In the center of a pleasant landscape, composed of suave,tranquil lines and masses, rises a mound, occupied byfive trees that shelter a statue of Bacchus, raised upon apedestal. At the foot of the latter is a votive wine-jar,near which are grouped three nude pipe-players and afourth with a tambourine. Below the mound reclinesa mother, whose child is struggling to reach her faun leans over her, and another is seated at the rightbeside a nymph, whose beautiful form is nude save fora pale rose drapery. On the left of this group two othernymphs are dancing with a youth, their blue and whitedraperies floating freely to the grace of their wreath of figures is completed by two other mendancing with spirited abandon, while, under the shadowof a tree on the left, two fauns set the measure w
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