Studio: international art (65.1915)

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“the BAPTISM OF ALPHIN KING OF LEITRIM, BY SAINT PATRICK, A. D. 434.” FRESCO DECORATION FOR ENTRANCE

OF DUBLIN CITY HALL BY JAMES WARD, A.R.C.A.

Winter Scene by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten com-
pletes this noble gift.

In addition to these pictures, several others lent
by Sir Hugh Lane to the Gallery shortly before
his death are now hung there, and will, it is hoped,
eventually become part of the permanent collec-
tion. They include three works by Poussin—
Pluto and Proserpine, supposed to be a study for

a ceiling in the Barberini Palace at Rome, The
Marriage of Thetis and Peleus, and a Bacchante
a?id Satyr; a large canvas by Tintoretto, Venus
and Adonis ; an important example of the work of
Claude Lorrain, hitherto unrepresented in Dublin,
Juno confiding Io to the care of Argus, and Chardin’s
serene and exquisite work La jeune Institutrice.

In speaking of Sir Hugh Lane’s work for the

“AN IRISH CHIEFTAIN OPPOSING THE LANDING OF THE DANES ON THE SHORES OF THE LIFFEY, A. D. SCO. ” FRESCO
DECORATION FOR ENTRANCE OF DUBLIN CITY HALL BY JAMES WARD, A.R.C.A.

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