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THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.

below. This description would answer in every respect
for perhaps a hundred Holy Families; and the little pic-
ture before us has no peculiar beauty to redeem the com-
mon-place treatment. Copper. 12| in. by 11| in.
3 / La F ortun a.—A repetition of one of the most celebrated
of Guido’s pictures. The original is in the Vatican at
Rome.*
C. 5 ft. 2^ in. by 4 ft. 2J in. Engraved by Strange.
MARATTI (Carlo), b. 1625; d. 1713. [See p. 189.]
38 Hagar in the Desert.—In the affected theatrical figure
of Hagar, in the fluttering mannered draperies, and com-
mon-place treatment, a signal example of the faults of the
degenerate Roman school.
C. An upright oval. 4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 3 in.
39 David and Bathsheba. Companion to the above.
MENGS (Antonio Raphael), b. 1728, at Dresden; d. 1779. [A
painter of great reputation and ability, in the last century, and a good
critic on art, whose works, notwithstanding the real enthusiasm with
which he studied and practised his art, touch neither the feeling nor
the imagination.]
40 Joseph’s Dream. — Two half length figures, life size.
“ But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord ap-
peared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, fear not to take unto thee Mary
thy wife.”—Matthew, i. v. 20.
Presented to the Duke of Dorset by the Earl Cowper.
P. 3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 8 in.f
LE BRUN (Charles), b. 1619 : d. 1690. [A famous French histo-
rical painter, distinguished principally by the facility of invention and
rapidity of hand with which he covered huge spaces with well drawn
figures, disposed in a theatrical style, very characteristic of the time.]
* See Shelley’s Letters. “ There was a Fortune, too, of Guido, a figure on a
globe, eagerly pressing onwards, and Love was trying to hold her back by the
hair, and her face was half turned towards him; her long chesnut hair was
floating back in the stream of the wind, and threw its shadow over her fair
forehead. Her hazel eyes were fixed on her pursuer with a meaning look of
playfulness, and a light smile was hovering on her lips. The colours which
arrayed her delicate limbs were ethereal and warm,” &c.
T A duplicate of the picture in the Florence gallery.