. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. No. 19ALTAR PANEL BY GERARD VAN DER MEERE GERARD VAN DER MEERE (Ghent)Flourished in tin- second quarter of the XV century. No. 19—ALTAR PANEL (Tunc]) Height, «W/j inches; width, 10% inches The scene is a Gothic interior, with a round-topped win-dow composed of two trefoiled lights, surmounted by aquatrefoil. A canopy of brocade overhangs a table or altar, spread with a white cloth, on which lie rive goldpieces. Behind the altar stands an ecclesiastic in a rose-colored mitre from which a drapery of the same
. Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools. No. 19ALTAR PANEL BY GERARD VAN DER MEERE GERARD VAN DER MEERE (Ghent)Flourished in tin- second quarter of the XV century. No. 19—ALTAR PANEL (Tunc]) Height, «W/j inches; width, 10% inches The scene is a Gothic interior, with a round-topped win-dow composed of two trefoiled lights, surmounted by aquatrefoil. A canopy of brocade overhangs a table or altar, spread with a white cloth, on which lie rive goldpieces. Behind the altar stands an ecclesiastic in a rose-colored mitre from which a drapery of the same colorfalls over the shoulders of an apple-green vestment. Mov-ing away on the right of the composition, with a lambin his arms, is the man who appears in No. 18, whilebehind him another man, distinguished by long brownhair, is offering a lamb at the altar. On the floor, inthe left of the foreground, lies a lamb with its throatcut. The panel appears to be one wing of a triptych, to whichNo. 18 is a No. 20 PORTRAIT OF CHARLES V OFGERMANY AND I OF SPAIN BY CHRISTOPH AMBERGER CHKISTOPH AMBEKGER German (Augsburg): ( ?)—1563 No. 20—PORTRAIT OF CHARLES V OF GERMANY AND I OF SPAIN (Canvas) Height, 25 inches; width, 191/-; inches The figure is shown to the waist, facing three-quartersto the right, the hands, one resting on the other, appearingat the foot of the canvas on a black, arc-shaped object,decorated with gold arabesques. The head is coveredwith soft white hair, arranged in wavy rows, while themustache and heard, curved round the square chin andjaws and growing up to the ears, where some black ap-pears, complete the white framing of the face. The lat-ter, as well as the hands, is painted in limpid colors withminiature-like refinement. The eyes are olive-gray, sur-rounded by wrinkles; the nose is long, slender and aqui-line, and the crimson underlip has the protrusion char-acteristic of the Hapsburg lineage. In the upper leftcorner of the olive-green background
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