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THE BRIDGEWATER GALLERY.
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Diana, seated on some drapery, holds a javelin, and with
the other hand points with indignation to Calisto, whose
shame is apparent. A nymph is taking off the sandals of
Diana.*
In the Orleans Gallery since 1721, previously in the
collection of M. de Tamboneau. Purchased by the Duke
of Bridgewater at the valuation of 1200 guineas.f
C. 2 ft. 10J in. by 3 ft. 4-J in.
CIGNANI (Carlo), b. 1628 ; d. 1718. Bologna S.
[A scholar of Albano, but very unlike him, ranking among the
very best of the second-rate Italian masters. His finest works are on
a large scale, and in fresco.]
23 A small “ Noli me Tangere.”—-St. John, xx. 17.
Christ, habited in blue drapery, and holding the spade, (by
which in painting it is usual to express the mistake of
Mary Magdalen—il she took him for the gardener,”) gently
repels the Magdalen, who is kneeling at his feet; near her,
the box of ointment. In the Orleans Gallery since 1721.
Purchased by the Duke of Bridgewater for 80 guineas.
Copper. 12 in. by 7J in.
CLAUDE DE LORRAINE, b. 1600; d. at Rome, 1674.
[Of Claude, the greatest painter of ideal landscape, I have already
spoken at length.^ A poet 'by nature, he belonged to no school, but
passed nearly the whole of his life at Rome, where he arrived a poor,
friendless youth, and rose to reputation by his own talent. The four
pictures here will convey to the mind, what no words could express-
that imaginative power, and sense of harmonious beauty
“ From which his fields and groves ever renew
Their green and golden immortality.”]
* “Annibal,” says Mr. Ottley, “ seems to have been obliged to his brother
Agostino for the pretty group of the two nymphs seated in the corner in front,
which is to be found in one of Agostino’s engravings.”
t Dr. Waagen decidedly attributes this fine picture to Domenichino, from its
resemblance to the famous “Diana” of the Borghese Palace. Some of th
attitudes and heads in that picture are here repeated.
t See First Series, p. 2/.
101
Diana, seated on some drapery, holds a javelin, and with
the other hand points with indignation to Calisto, whose
shame is apparent. A nymph is taking off the sandals of
Diana.*
In the Orleans Gallery since 1721, previously in the
collection of M. de Tamboneau. Purchased by the Duke
of Bridgewater at the valuation of 1200 guineas.f
C. 2 ft. 10J in. by 3 ft. 4-J in.
CIGNANI (Carlo), b. 1628 ; d. 1718. Bologna S.
[A scholar of Albano, but very unlike him, ranking among the
very best of the second-rate Italian masters. His finest works are on
a large scale, and in fresco.]
23 A small “ Noli me Tangere.”—-St. John, xx. 17.
Christ, habited in blue drapery, and holding the spade, (by
which in painting it is usual to express the mistake of
Mary Magdalen—il she took him for the gardener,”) gently
repels the Magdalen, who is kneeling at his feet; near her,
the box of ointment. In the Orleans Gallery since 1721.
Purchased by the Duke of Bridgewater for 80 guineas.
Copper. 12 in. by 7J in.
CLAUDE DE LORRAINE, b. 1600; d. at Rome, 1674.
[Of Claude, the greatest painter of ideal landscape, I have already
spoken at length.^ A poet 'by nature, he belonged to no school, but
passed nearly the whole of his life at Rome, where he arrived a poor,
friendless youth, and rose to reputation by his own talent. The four
pictures here will convey to the mind, what no words could express-
that imaginative power, and sense of harmonious beauty
“ From which his fields and groves ever renew
Their green and golden immortality.”]
* “Annibal,” says Mr. Ottley, “ seems to have been obliged to his brother
Agostino for the pretty group of the two nymphs seated in the corner in front,
which is to be found in one of Agostino’s engravings.”
t Dr. Waagen decidedly attributes this fine picture to Domenichino, from its
resemblance to the famous “Diana” of the Borghese Palace. Some of th
attitudes and heads in that picture are here repeated.
t See First Series, p. 2/.