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THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.
56 The Marriage of St. Catherine.—The Virgin,
seated, holds the infant Saviour standing, who bends for-
ward to put the ring on St. Catherine’s right hand; her
left rests on the wheel. St. Joseph is seen behind, resting
on his hand.* Copper. 9f in. by 7J in.
POLIDORO (da Caravaggio), b. 1495 ; d. 1543. Roman S.
[Originally a mason employed by the fresco painters in the Vatican.
Very remarkable for the antique, classical spirit of his works, which
are principally decorative. ]
57 St. Peter.—St. Paul.—Two small full length figures
painted in chiaro scuro, on separate panels, which formed
originally the doors of a cabinet. They are most noble and
elegant in design, and most delicately finished. Very un-
like the friezes of Polidoro at Hampton Court, which
though finely designed, are coarse daubs in comparison to
these exquisite little pictures, f P. 8| in. by 3 in. each.
POUSSIN (Niccolb), b. 1595; d. 1665. (Seep. 108.) [All his pic-
tures here are in the highest degree remarkable. The first as illus-
trating his imaginative power in epic and landscape, the others as
proving the excellence to which he could rise as a colourist, a talent
rarely allowed him, and which, it must be owned he did not often
display.]
58 A Grand Landscape with Figures.—In a rugged,
melancholy, and most poetical landscape, he has introduced
and treated in a very singular manner, the story of Calisto,
who, banished after her frailty from the companionship of
Diana, was transformed into a bear by Juno. She is pur-
sued by her son Areas, who is about to wound her to
death,
* This is precisely the subject of the picture No. 54, and it will be interesting
and instructive to note the difference of sentiment and treatment.
+ Many of the easel pictures of the old masters, down to the l"th century,
have been detached from pieces of furniture, such as cabinets, harpsichords,
bedsteads, (then a favourite article of luxury, and often adorned with elegant
friezes,) and particularly large chests in which linen and choice garments were
deposited. Seven such Italian chests, painted with histories of the Old and
New Testaments, were in the possession of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Poli-
doro, Maturino, Albano, and Paul Brill, excelled in this finer species of decora-
tive painting.
THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.
56 The Marriage of St. Catherine.—The Virgin,
seated, holds the infant Saviour standing, who bends for-
ward to put the ring on St. Catherine’s right hand; her
left rests on the wheel. St. Joseph is seen behind, resting
on his hand.* Copper. 9f in. by 7J in.
POLIDORO (da Caravaggio), b. 1495 ; d. 1543. Roman S.
[Originally a mason employed by the fresco painters in the Vatican.
Very remarkable for the antique, classical spirit of his works, which
are principally decorative. ]
57 St. Peter.—St. Paul.—Two small full length figures
painted in chiaro scuro, on separate panels, which formed
originally the doors of a cabinet. They are most noble and
elegant in design, and most delicately finished. Very un-
like the friezes of Polidoro at Hampton Court, which
though finely designed, are coarse daubs in comparison to
these exquisite little pictures, f P. 8| in. by 3 in. each.
POUSSIN (Niccolb), b. 1595; d. 1665. (Seep. 108.) [All his pic-
tures here are in the highest degree remarkable. The first as illus-
trating his imaginative power in epic and landscape, the others as
proving the excellence to which he could rise as a colourist, a talent
rarely allowed him, and which, it must be owned he did not often
display.]
58 A Grand Landscape with Figures.—In a rugged,
melancholy, and most poetical landscape, he has introduced
and treated in a very singular manner, the story of Calisto,
who, banished after her frailty from the companionship of
Diana, was transformed into a bear by Juno. She is pur-
sued by her son Areas, who is about to wound her to
death,
* This is precisely the subject of the picture No. 54, and it will be interesting
and instructive to note the difference of sentiment and treatment.
+ Many of the easel pictures of the old masters, down to the l"th century,
have been detached from pieces of furniture, such as cabinets, harpsichords,
bedsteads, (then a favourite article of luxury, and often adorned with elegant
friezes,) and particularly large chests in which linen and choice garments were
deposited. Seven such Italian chests, painted with histories of the Old and
New Testaments, were in the possession of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Poli-
doro, Maturino, Albano, and Paul Brill, excelled in this finer species of decora-
tive painting.