A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . acrifice to Fertil-ity and a ^Bacchanalian Scene, copied atRome in 1605, from famous works ofTitlan*s now in Madrid. Between these isRembrants ^Conspiracy of the Batavlansunder Claudius Civilis against the Romans,painted in 1662 for the Town Hall of Am-sterdam and after the Night Watch, thelargest work by that master. There are alsoseveral admirable portraits by Rembrant,the best being the Portrait of his Hals* Fiddler is an excellent ex-ample of that artists work. Then there areseveral fine paintings by Jordaens, bu
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . acrifice to Fertil-ity and a ^Bacchanalian Scene, copied atRome in 1605, from famous works ofTitlan*s now in Madrid. Between these isRembrants ^Conspiracy of the Batavlansunder Claudius Civilis against the Romans,painted in 1662 for the Town Hall of Am-sterdam and after the Night Watch, thelargest work by that master. There are alsoseveral admirable portraits by Rembrant,the best being the Portrait of his Hals* Fiddler is an excellent ex-ample of that artists work. Then there areseveral fine paintings by Jordaens, but theone by him that especially attracted our at-tention was, The Lydian King Candaulestempting his favorite Gyges. The smallDutch pictures are hung in the cabinets ad-joining this gallery and are well worth care-ful study. In the French Sal, is a collec-tion that is equalled In only one or two placesoutside of Paris. There are several worksby Frangols Boucher, the finest of which isthe Triumph of Venus, perhaps his mas-terpiece. Among the eight subjects by Jean. > A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 105 Baptiste Oudry, the animal painter, the bestis the Stag Hunt. There are also fine ex-amples of the works of La Moyne, J. , Van Loo, and Chardin. Then thereare three beautiful little pieces by Lancret,two of which, The Swing and Blind-mans-Buff, are very popular in engravingsand color prints. However, our principalreason for coming here was to see whatSwedish artists had accomplished. Painting,as an art in Sweden, only dates back to theend of the seventeenth century, and mostof the earlier artists were portrait paintersconnected with the court. If, however,there are no very old Swedish Masters, thecountry has produced some wonderful mod-ern artists. Cederstroms Body of CharlesXIL, on its way to Sweden, is a very im-pressive winter scene, well interpreted. Hell-qvists canvas called The Sacking of Wis-by is full of life and color. These twoworks show what can be accomplished in
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