The art of the Dresden gallery; notes and observations upon the old and modern masters and paintings in the royal collection . ndGalatea, in this collection, is a happy exception tothis rule. It was painted at the time of the plaguein Rome, when most of the citizens fled, and whileClaude and Poussin went serenely on with theirbusiness regardless of the storm and stress there is no suggestion of a physical terrorin this placid sea, on which the soft glow of thesunlight falls so tranquilly with its high rocky prom-ontory at the right, and the lovers in their littleimprovised te
The art of the Dresden gallery; notes and observations upon the old and modern masters and paintings in the royal collection . ndGalatea, in this collection, is a happy exception tothis rule. It was painted at the time of the plaguein Rome, when most of the citizens fled, and whileClaude and Poussin went serenely on with theirbusiness regardless of the storm and stress there is no suggestion of a physical terrorin this placid sea, on which the soft glow of thesunlight falls so tranquilly with its high rocky prom-ontory at the right, and the lovers in their littleimprovised tent in the foreground. A playful littleCupid is amusing himself with a couple of and Galatea have taken a mean advantage ofpoor Polyphemus, the Cyclops lover of the nymph,who sits on the opposite bank, piping contentedly,little suspecting what is going on beyond the littleshelter which so discreetly turns its back upon him! The other Claude, the Flight into Egypt, wasamong the personal effects of the master, and wasmentioned in his will, as * painted on the spot by myhand! This spot certainly was not Egypt! The. XTbe jfrencb auD Bnolisb Scbools 145 picture might possibly come under the condemnationof Ruskin, who speaks of the mourning andmurky olive-browns and verdigris greens in whichClaude, with the industry and intelligence of aSevres china painter, drags the laborious brambleleaves over his childish foregrounds! This is elo-quent criticism, and there is some truth in it. Thispicture used to be catalogued as A ShepherdessListening to a Shepherd playing on a Pipe, butit may be observed that in the left background isthe episode which has changed the name of thepicture: the Flight into Egypt, Joseph leading theass upon which sits the Virgin holding her more one looks at this picture the more epi-sodes one detects. A goat appears to be committingsuicide incontinently at the right, by jumping intoa ravine. Among these pictures hangs one by the Flemishartist, G
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