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PETER PAUL RUBENS.
lished with columns supporting a pediment, on one side of
which are six cupids disposed in elegant and playful attitudes,
bearing in their hands clustering festoons of fruit; four of
them are on the ground, and the rest ssoat above. The
opposite side of the figure is already decorated. A brilliant
and highly finished work.
3 st. by 2 st. 2.—P.
In the Palace of the Hermitage. Worth 290Z.
213. Venus and Adonis. The beautiful goddess appears
to have just descended from her car and thrown herself into
the arms of her lover, who receives her embraces with im-
patience, his right hand is removing her arm from his neck,
and the other holds a spear. Cupid is seconding the endea-
vours of the goddess to detain him, by clinging round his
thigh. At the same time his eager dogs invite his departure
for the chase. The milk-white swans of the goddess are in
playful action behind her, and a rich cluster of trees tends to
relieve advantageously the figures. This richly coloured and
admirably finished work is doubtless the picture from which
Tassaert engraved his print. See also Nos. 378 and 834 ;
also 202 and 506, Vol. n.
2 st. 8 by 2 st. 11|.—p.
In the Palace of the Hermitage at Petersburg. Worth 500Z.
214. Saints adoring the Infant Saviour. The subject is
composed of eleven figures, and exhibits the Virgin, attired in
a scarlet robe and a green mantle, sitting at the base of a
column holding the infant Saviour in an erect position on
her knees, with her right hand on his arm ; the infant St.
John is by her side, leaning on her knee. Their attention is
directed to seven saints assembled around them, one of whom,
wearing a blue mantle, kneels in front with his back to the
spectator ; beyond him is St. Mary of Egypt, with her hands
PETER PAUL RUBENS.
lished with columns supporting a pediment, on one side of
which are six cupids disposed in elegant and playful attitudes,
bearing in their hands clustering festoons of fruit; four of
them are on the ground, and the rest ssoat above. The
opposite side of the figure is already decorated. A brilliant
and highly finished work.
3 st. by 2 st. 2.—P.
In the Palace of the Hermitage. Worth 290Z.
213. Venus and Adonis. The beautiful goddess appears
to have just descended from her car and thrown herself into
the arms of her lover, who receives her embraces with im-
patience, his right hand is removing her arm from his neck,
and the other holds a spear. Cupid is seconding the endea-
vours of the goddess to detain him, by clinging round his
thigh. At the same time his eager dogs invite his departure
for the chase. The milk-white swans of the goddess are in
playful action behind her, and a rich cluster of trees tends to
relieve advantageously the figures. This richly coloured and
admirably finished work is doubtless the picture from which
Tassaert engraved his print. See also Nos. 378 and 834 ;
also 202 and 506, Vol. n.
2 st. 8 by 2 st. 11|.—p.
In the Palace of the Hermitage at Petersburg. Worth 500Z.
214. Saints adoring the Infant Saviour. The subject is
composed of eleven figures, and exhibits the Virgin, attired in
a scarlet robe and a green mantle, sitting at the base of a
column holding the infant Saviour in an erect position on
her knees, with her right hand on his arm ; the infant St.
John is by her side, leaning on her knee. Their attention is
directed to seven saints assembled around them, one of whom,
wearing a blue mantle, kneels in front with his back to the
spectator ; beyond him is St. Mary of Egypt, with her hands