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acquired. This was the Two Young Men at a measures 68 by 50 cm. (about 27 by 20 inches).
Meal, formerly in the Sanderson collection in

Edinburgh, and, though not one of the master's Konyves Kalman," the well-known firm

best works, is still a great gain for Hungary, of art publishers in Budapest, desire it to be

Works by Carreno, El Greco, and the less known that the copyright of Robert Nadler's

known painter of the 15th century, Sanchez picture, Porto Place, Ragusa, reproduced in

Pedro, have also been secured, as well as a the January number of The Studio (p. 334)

landscape by Murillo (already represented by belongs to them. A. S. L.
eight paintings in Budapest collections) and two

Goyas, making four by this master. VIENNA.—The winter exhibition at the

Kunstlerhaus was a jubilee exhibi-

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The two Goyas recently acquired are The \/ tion of the Water-Colour Club, which
Knife Grinder and The Water Carrier. They was founded 25 years ago, its first

were brought to Vienna by Prince Wenzel Chairman having been the late Rudolf von Alt.
Anton Kaunitz, Chancellor to Maria Theresa In 1886, the club's members numbered 45, which
and founder of the Vienna Academy of Art. later increased to 65, but many of these went
On his death in 1794 his collection was sold, over with Alt to the "Secession" or to the Hagen-
Prince Esterhazy purchasing these two master- bund in 1900 ; and there then remained but some
pieces for the even then astonishingly small sum 30 members in the Club. In the meantime, how-
of about four guineas apiece. On the death of ever, new accessions have brought the number
Prince Esterhazy, the Hungarian State pur- to 75, and there are also 49 corresponding mem-
chased his collection, and since that time The bers. This jubilee exhibition was confined to the
Knife Grinder and
The Water Car-
rier have been
housed in the
Gallery of Fine
Arts, Budapest.
Both these works
are generally ac-
knowledged to be
masterpieces. The
harmony of colour
in The Water
Carrier is superb.
The background
of grey-blues tones
admirably with the
colour scheme of
the figure — the
light chestnut of
the hair, the rosy
hue of the cheeks,
the white fichu,
yellow apron, and
skirt of brownish
grey, beneath
which is another
fringe of lustrous
white. The shoes,
too, are white, and
are perhaps the
only incongruous
elements in the

picture, which "cleaning up the studio" (Aquarcllisten-Klub, Vienna) by josef kopf

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