International studio (80.1925)

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"PILGRIM AT PRAYER" BY REMBRANDT

unknown or which have passed under other names.
I venture to tell you that none of them surpass
yours (the Willys Bellini) for largeness of design,
simplicity of coloring and soundness of condition.
On the side of feeling, I find it tender, yet grave,
very human and healthy."*—this "Madonna and
Child" remains a baffling Bellini, one which has

* Catalogue Raisonne of the collection of jiictures formed by John N.
Willys, Esq. by W. Roberts, New York. Privately printed 1917.

imbedded within its loveliness an almost alien
something that is truly difficult of analysis. This
painting comes from the Sir George Campbell
Collection, and was publicly shown in America at
the time of the Fiftieth Anniversary Loan Exhi-
bition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Modestly fronting the Bellini "Madonna" at
the other end of the hallway hangs the lovely
little Memling "Portrait of a Young Gentleman,"

three si>;ty-six

FEBRUARY 1925