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CLAUDE LORRAINE.
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Landscapes.
35. A Youth instructing a Girl to play on the Pipe. A
group composed of three women and two men, is introduced
in the foreground of a landscape ; two of them, a youth and a
girl, are seated at the foot of a tree, with pipes in their hands ;
the former appears to have ceased playing, and is guiding the
fingers of his companion, the others stand by observing them
The opposite side is composed of high ground, adorned with
clusters of trees, under the shade of which are cattle browsing- ;
around its base ssows a stream; from hence the eye looks over
the lake Albano, beyond whose high banks are seen the Castle
of Gandolfo, and the surrounding ssat campagnia. Painted
for Pope Urban VIII., in the Barberini Palace.
36. Herdsmen listening to a Piper. The view represents an
open and undulated country, in the foreground of which is a
large herd of oxen and goats, some of which a peasant is
driving away, in order to prevent them from interrupting a
rural company of about nine persons, assembled under the
shade of a clump of trees on the right, most of whom appear
to be listening to the sounds of a pipe, played by one of the
party, who is seated on a log of timber ; in the centre of the
group is a young woman, who seems to be much delighted
with the music. A small town is seen on the bank of a river,
in the middle distance, beyond which stretches a chain of
mountains.
37. A Hunting Party. In the composition of this picture,
the sigures are made the principal, as they are unusually large
in proportion to the landscape; they consist of two ladies and
a gentleman on horseback, the latter of whom is pointing to
some distant object. Two men on foot accompany them, and
211
Landscapes.
35. A Youth instructing a Girl to play on the Pipe. A
group composed of three women and two men, is introduced
in the foreground of a landscape ; two of them, a youth and a
girl, are seated at the foot of a tree, with pipes in their hands ;
the former appears to have ceased playing, and is guiding the
fingers of his companion, the others stand by observing them
The opposite side is composed of high ground, adorned with
clusters of trees, under the shade of which are cattle browsing- ;
around its base ssows a stream; from hence the eye looks over
the lake Albano, beyond whose high banks are seen the Castle
of Gandolfo, and the surrounding ssat campagnia. Painted
for Pope Urban VIII., in the Barberini Palace.
36. Herdsmen listening to a Piper. The view represents an
open and undulated country, in the foreground of which is a
large herd of oxen and goats, some of which a peasant is
driving away, in order to prevent them from interrupting a
rural company of about nine persons, assembled under the
shade of a clump of trees on the right, most of whom appear
to be listening to the sounds of a pipe, played by one of the
party, who is seated on a log of timber ; in the centre of the
group is a young woman, who seems to be much delighted
with the music. A small town is seen on the bank of a river,
in the middle distance, beyond which stretches a chain of
mountains.
37. A Hunting Party. In the composition of this picture,
the sigures are made the principal, as they are unusually large
in proportion to the landscape; they consist of two ladies and
a gentleman on horseback, the latter of whom is pointing to
some distant object. Two men on foot accompany them, and