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THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.
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67 St. John the Baptist—-as a youth of sixteen, seated
in a rocky wilderness, and with his right hand pointing
upwards to the cross; in the left a scroll. One of the in-
numerable copies of the celebrated large picture now in
the Tribune at Florence, which was painted by Raphael
about 1518. P. 15 in. by 13^ in.
68 A Riposo. •—The Virgin and St. Joseph worship the
infant Saviour, who lies on the ground between them; a
group of angels above. Agar collection.
The companion,
69 St. Luke painting the Virgin and Child.—
Purchased in Italy for the first Lord Grosvenor, by Mr.
Dalton.*
Both, pictures on panel with arched top. 18 in. by 12| in.
It is curious that two pictures so evidently companions,
should have been brought from different places, by different
persons, at different times. They are the work of one of
Raphael’s scholars, and parts of them are borrowed from
various of his compositions. (See Passavant’s “ Rafael,”
vol. ii. p. 416.)
SACCHI. (See Andrea Sacchi.)
SARTO. (See Andrea del Sarto.)
SALVATOR ROSA, b. 1614 ; d. 1673. [It is difficult to charac-
terise in few words this versatile, original, animated painter. Whether
landscape, history, or portrait employed his vigorous pencil, still we
find him in his element—the picturesque. Like all things which bear
the impress of the individual character of the earnest nature which
created them, his works may sometimes offend our taste, but always
arrest the attention and strike the imagination.]
70 Democritus.—-The philosopher is seated in a gloomy
solitude, surrounded with bones, skeletons, broken or de-
cayed monuments of art, trees torn or blasted. A fine
example of the wild imagination of the painter, who has
evidently intended to represent Democritus as he was
Young’s Catalogue of the Grosvenor Gallery.
259
67 St. John the Baptist—-as a youth of sixteen, seated
in a rocky wilderness, and with his right hand pointing
upwards to the cross; in the left a scroll. One of the in-
numerable copies of the celebrated large picture now in
the Tribune at Florence, which was painted by Raphael
about 1518. P. 15 in. by 13^ in.
68 A Riposo. •—The Virgin and St. Joseph worship the
infant Saviour, who lies on the ground between them; a
group of angels above. Agar collection.
The companion,
69 St. Luke painting the Virgin and Child.—
Purchased in Italy for the first Lord Grosvenor, by Mr.
Dalton.*
Both, pictures on panel with arched top. 18 in. by 12| in.
It is curious that two pictures so evidently companions,
should have been brought from different places, by different
persons, at different times. They are the work of one of
Raphael’s scholars, and parts of them are borrowed from
various of his compositions. (See Passavant’s “ Rafael,”
vol. ii. p. 416.)
SACCHI. (See Andrea Sacchi.)
SARTO. (See Andrea del Sarto.)
SALVATOR ROSA, b. 1614 ; d. 1673. [It is difficult to charac-
terise in few words this versatile, original, animated painter. Whether
landscape, history, or portrait employed his vigorous pencil, still we
find him in his element—the picturesque. Like all things which bear
the impress of the individual character of the earnest nature which
created them, his works may sometimes offend our taste, but always
arrest the attention and strike the imagination.]
70 Democritus.—-The philosopher is seated in a gloomy
solitude, surrounded with bones, skeletons, broken or de-
cayed monuments of art, trees torn or blasted. A fine
example of the wild imagination of the painter, who has
evidently intended to represent Democritus as he was
Young’s Catalogue of the Grosvenor Gallery.