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RUBENS.
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a woman approaching, the former bears a lighted candle ; an
ox and an ass are in front of the manger.
Engraved by Bolswert.
Painted sor the church of the Capuchins at Lille.
118. St. Francis receiving the infant Saviour in his arms
from the Virgin.
This is either a duplicate picture or an error in the entry, as the
same subject occurs in page 24, the churches having the same
appellation : this at Lille and the other at Antwerp. No picture of
the kind is in either at the present day.
119- The Adoration of the Magi. The Virgin, with the
infant Saviour in her lap, is seated on the right, and St. Joseph
stands behind her, leaning on a stick, and observing with
emotion one of the magi, who is on his knees, presenting the
child a bowl of money ; behind the latter stands a Moorish
king with a gold vase in his hand (his head is turned from
the spectator), the train of his splendid robe is supported by a
negro boy ; near these is one with an incense pot, and another
extending his arms towards the holy persons ; nine figures,
chiessy soldiers, are beyond the two latter magi. The place
exhibits the exterior of a stable, with the broken shaft of a
column lying in front.
9 st. 6 in. by 7 ft. 6 in.—C.
Engraved by Ryckman.
This capital production formerly adorned the church of Berg-
Saint-Vinox, from whence it was sold to defray the expenses of
repairs, and was purchased by M. Randon de Boisset, in 1766, for
the sum of 60,000^5., 2400Z.—a most extraordinary price for that
period ; but as this statement is made by Le Brun, in a catalogue of
1791, when the picture was put up for sale, some doubt of its
correctness may justly be entertained.
41
a woman approaching, the former bears a lighted candle ; an
ox and an ass are in front of the manger.
Engraved by Bolswert.
Painted sor the church of the Capuchins at Lille.
118. St. Francis receiving the infant Saviour in his arms
from the Virgin.
This is either a duplicate picture or an error in the entry, as the
same subject occurs in page 24, the churches having the same
appellation : this at Lille and the other at Antwerp. No picture of
the kind is in either at the present day.
119- The Adoration of the Magi. The Virgin, with the
infant Saviour in her lap, is seated on the right, and St. Joseph
stands behind her, leaning on a stick, and observing with
emotion one of the magi, who is on his knees, presenting the
child a bowl of money ; behind the latter stands a Moorish
king with a gold vase in his hand (his head is turned from
the spectator), the train of his splendid robe is supported by a
negro boy ; near these is one with an incense pot, and another
extending his arms towards the holy persons ; nine figures,
chiessy soldiers, are beyond the two latter magi. The place
exhibits the exterior of a stable, with the broken shaft of a
column lying in front.
9 st. 6 in. by 7 ft. 6 in.—C.
Engraved by Ryckman.
This capital production formerly adorned the church of Berg-
Saint-Vinox, from whence it was sold to defray the expenses of
repairs, and was purchased by M. Randon de Boisset, in 1766, for
the sum of 60,000^5., 2400Z.—a most extraordinary price for that
period ; but as this statement is made by Le Brun, in a catalogue of
1791, when the picture was put up for sale, some doubt of its
correctness may justly be entertained.