554 ADRIAN VANDER WERF.
13. A duplicate of the preceding is engraved by Macret,
in the Le Brun Gallery.
In the Collection of the Earl of Derby.
14. The Holy Family. This exquisitely-wrought picture
exhibits the Virgin, attired in a drab-coloured vesture, and a
blue mantle, and her light hair bound up with a band, seated
on the ground, with a book in her hand, which she has ceased
to read, and is looking affectionately at the infant Saviour,
who is recumbent on the ground, reclining against St. John,
with his attention fixed on a nest of young birds, which the
latter is showing him. Beyond this group is seated St.
Joseph reposing. See description, No. 27, Vol. iv., improved.
In the Munich Gallery. Worth 450 gs.
15. The Discovery of Calisto. The view exhibits a beauti-
ful arcadian scene, along the foreground of which ssows a
smooth translucent stream : here the goddess Diana sits on
her azure-coloured mantle ; one hand is raised, and the other
extended with her finger pointing to the disgraced Calisto,
who is bending on one knee on the bank of the water, sur-
rounded by five of her companions, one of whom holds her
by the arm. This is a most superlative production. Des-
cription, No. 80, Vol. IV., improved. See note to that notice,
and read for size
\ ft. 5| by 2 ft. 5.—P.
In the Munich Gallery. Worth 500Z.
16. Angelica and Medora. The figures in this picture
are of the size of life. The youth, girt with a red mantle
round his loins, and the rest of the body being denuded, is
seated on a bank under the shadow of a tree, with a pipe in
his hand, which he has just ceased to play, and is looking
13. A duplicate of the preceding is engraved by Macret,
in the Le Brun Gallery.
In the Collection of the Earl of Derby.
14. The Holy Family. This exquisitely-wrought picture
exhibits the Virgin, attired in a drab-coloured vesture, and a
blue mantle, and her light hair bound up with a band, seated
on the ground, with a book in her hand, which she has ceased
to read, and is looking affectionately at the infant Saviour,
who is recumbent on the ground, reclining against St. John,
with his attention fixed on a nest of young birds, which the
latter is showing him. Beyond this group is seated St.
Joseph reposing. See description, No. 27, Vol. iv., improved.
In the Munich Gallery. Worth 450 gs.
15. The Discovery of Calisto. The view exhibits a beauti-
ful arcadian scene, along the foreground of which ssows a
smooth translucent stream : here the goddess Diana sits on
her azure-coloured mantle ; one hand is raised, and the other
extended with her finger pointing to the disgraced Calisto,
who is bending on one knee on the bank of the water, sur-
rounded by five of her companions, one of whom holds her
by the arm. This is a most superlative production. Des-
cription, No. 80, Vol. IV., improved. See note to that notice,
and read for size
\ ft. 5| by 2 ft. 5.—P.
In the Munich Gallery. Worth 500Z.
16. Angelica and Medora. The figures in this picture
are of the size of life. The youth, girt with a red mantle
round his loins, and the rest of the body being denuded, is
seated on a bank under the shadow of a tree, with a pipe in
his hand, which he has just ceased to play, and is looking