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robust, compact forms, and careful execution, there is, as in them,
a visible striving after truth and nature. The beautiful poetical
landscape in the background is quite in the taste of Titian
(No. 10).
4. St. John the Baptist pointing to Christ, who is approaching
from the distance (No. 84) ; from the Orleans Gallery. In this
picture we see the eclectic studies of Annibale Carracci on another
side. We have here an academic figure. The St. John is coloured
in a reddish tone, like the Genius of Glory in the Dresden Gal-
lery. The landscape is of a noble, cheerful character.
5. St. John the Baptist as a child, in a landscape (No. 58),
also from the Orleans Gallery; this is of the same class, only the
position of the legs is tasteless, and the landscape too dark.
Domeniciiixo.—1. Christ bearing the Cross (No. 30), from
the Orleans Gallery. As is sometimes the case with this master,
the composition has a scattered, arbitrary effect, and is wanting in
masses and leading lines. The conception of the figure of Christ,
sunk to the ground, is noble, but rather too feeble. In clearness
and freshness of colouring, however, and in admirable execution,
this picture is one of his finest works.
2. The Ecstasy of St. Francis (No. 83), from the Orleans Gal-
lery. The expression of enthusiasm is very successfully given, the
colouring again very bright and clear, the execution rather less
careful.
3. The head of a female Saint (No. 51) combines that noble-
ness of character and expression which he knew how to give to
such subjects with his brightest colouring.
4. A landscape; with the story of Calisto (No. 88). This
picture continues to be ascribed, as in the Orleans Gallery, to
Annibale Carracci, but it so entirely coincides in all its parts with
Domenichino's well-known picture of Diana and her Nymphs, in
the Borghese Palace, that I must decidedly attribute it to him.
Some attitudes and heads, which are peculiarly his own, are
repeated here from that picture ; Annibale Carracci, besides, has
not this reddish glowing tone of the flesh, nor this fresh juicy green
of the trees. This picture, about 2 ft. 8 in. high, and 3 ft. 6 in.
wide, is in every respect one of the most beautiful small works by
Domenichino.
5. A landscape, about 7 ft. wide and 4 ft. high ; from the
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robust, compact forms, and careful execution, there is, as in them,
a visible striving after truth and nature. The beautiful poetical
landscape in the background is quite in the taste of Titian
(No. 10).
4. St. John the Baptist pointing to Christ, who is approaching
from the distance (No. 84) ; from the Orleans Gallery. In this
picture we see the eclectic studies of Annibale Carracci on another
side. We have here an academic figure. The St. John is coloured
in a reddish tone, like the Genius of Glory in the Dresden Gal-
lery. The landscape is of a noble, cheerful character.
5. St. John the Baptist as a child, in a landscape (No. 58),
also from the Orleans Gallery; this is of the same class, only the
position of the legs is tasteless, and the landscape too dark.
Domeniciiixo.—1. Christ bearing the Cross (No. 30), from
the Orleans Gallery. As is sometimes the case with this master,
the composition has a scattered, arbitrary effect, and is wanting in
masses and leading lines. The conception of the figure of Christ,
sunk to the ground, is noble, but rather too feeble. In clearness
and freshness of colouring, however, and in admirable execution,
this picture is one of his finest works.
2. The Ecstasy of St. Francis (No. 83), from the Orleans Gal-
lery. The expression of enthusiasm is very successfully given, the
colouring again very bright and clear, the execution rather less
careful.
3. The head of a female Saint (No. 51) combines that noble-
ness of character and expression which he knew how to give to
such subjects with his brightest colouring.
4. A landscape; with the story of Calisto (No. 88). This
picture continues to be ascribed, as in the Orleans Gallery, to
Annibale Carracci, but it so entirely coincides in all its parts with
Domenichino's well-known picture of Diana and her Nymphs, in
the Borghese Palace, that I must decidedly attribute it to him.
Some attitudes and heads, which are peculiarly his own, are
repeated here from that picture ; Annibale Carracci, besides, has
not this reddish glowing tone of the flesh, nor this fresh juicy green
of the trees. This picture, about 2 ft. 8 in. high, and 3 ft. 6 in.
wide, is in every respect one of the most beautiful small works by
Domenichino.
5. A landscape, about 7 ft. wide and 4 ft. high ; from the
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