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Letter XLII. DUTCH AND FLEMISH PICTURES.
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at a table at a large window, engaged in playing cards and
drinking wine. Through a door a maid is seen in the courtyard.
Inscribed "P. d. H., 1658." A picture hangs upon the wall.
This is a first-rate work of the master. The contrasts of the
masses and colours are rendered with great art; the effect of the
bright sunlight inimitable, and the execution particularly broad,
and of full body. Purchased in 1825 for 15,000 francs, by Mr.
Smith, the picture-dealer, of the Baron Von Mecklenburg. On
canvas, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 2 ft. 1^ in. wide.
2. A woman spinning, seated at a door, a maid bringing a pail
and a pitcher of water. Though the effect of the evening sun is
striking, yet in the colour of the buildings and reflections the red
too uniformly predominates, and there is something hard in the
treatment. On canvas, 2 ft. 2i in. high, 1 ft 9 in. wide.
A lady at the harpsichord, called Peter de Hooge, is treated
almost entirely in half light. But it hangs too high, and in too
bad a light, to form an opinion of it,
Gonzales Coques.—Mynheer Verhelst with his wife and four
children, on the marble terrace of a house. The background is a
landscape. This masterpiece excels, in refinement, delicacy, ele-
gance of execution, and clearness of colouring, everything else
that I have seen by this master, while the composition is inferior
in taste to none. On canvas, 1 ft. 9^- in. high, 2 ft. 4 in. wide.
From the fine collection of Lord Radstock.
Bernard Graet.—By this less known master, who attempted
with success several branches of the art, is here a family in the
open air, in the manner of Coques ; of great animation in the
heads, and of very bright and clear colouring.
Teniers.—1. Four boors at a table, two of whom are playing
at cards. In a light, clear, but warm tone, and of the most
delicate and spirited touch. This picture, which was undoubtedly
painted between 1640 and 1647, and therefore in the best time of
the master, shows of what he was capable ; and, among the many
admirable specimens of him in this collection, is, in my opinion,
the best. On panel, 94 in. high, 13i in. wide.
2. Near the walls of a castle are boors dancing, the seigneur
and his family looking on. A composition of about thirty persons.
Inscribed with the artist's name and 1645. In this carefully
painted picture, of a truly brilliant tone, Teniers, who imitated
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at a table at a large window, engaged in playing cards and
drinking wine. Through a door a maid is seen in the courtyard.
Inscribed "P. d. H., 1658." A picture hangs upon the wall.
This is a first-rate work of the master. The contrasts of the
masses and colours are rendered with great art; the effect of the
bright sunlight inimitable, and the execution particularly broad,
and of full body. Purchased in 1825 for 15,000 francs, by Mr.
Smith, the picture-dealer, of the Baron Von Mecklenburg. On
canvas, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 2 ft. 1^ in. wide.
2. A woman spinning, seated at a door, a maid bringing a pail
and a pitcher of water. Though the effect of the evening sun is
striking, yet in the colour of the buildings and reflections the red
too uniformly predominates, and there is something hard in the
treatment. On canvas, 2 ft. 2i in. high, 1 ft 9 in. wide.
A lady at the harpsichord, called Peter de Hooge, is treated
almost entirely in half light. But it hangs too high, and in too
bad a light, to form an opinion of it,
Gonzales Coques.—Mynheer Verhelst with his wife and four
children, on the marble terrace of a house. The background is a
landscape. This masterpiece excels, in refinement, delicacy, ele-
gance of execution, and clearness of colouring, everything else
that I have seen by this master, while the composition is inferior
in taste to none. On canvas, 1 ft. 9^- in. high, 2 ft. 4 in. wide.
From the fine collection of Lord Radstock.
Bernard Graet.—By this less known master, who attempted
with success several branches of the art, is here a family in the
open air, in the manner of Coques ; of great animation in the
heads, and of very bright and clear colouring.
Teniers.—1. Four boors at a table, two of whom are playing
at cards. In a light, clear, but warm tone, and of the most
delicate and spirited touch. This picture, which was undoubtedly
painted between 1640 and 1647, and therefore in the best time of
the master, shows of what he was capable ; and, among the many
admirable specimens of him in this collection, is, in my opinion,
the best. On panel, 94 in. high, 13i in. wide.
2. Near the walls of a castle are boors dancing, the seigneur
and his family looking on. A composition of about thirty persons.
Inscribed with the artist's name and 1645. In this carefully
painted picture, of a truly brilliant tone, Teniers, who imitated