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COL. RAWDON — LADY GARVAGIL Letter XV11.T.
PICTURES BELONGING TO COLONEL RAWDON, M.P.
Among many very good pictures of a second and third rank
which adorn the rooms of this gentleman's residence, the following
two appeared to me particularly remarkable :—
Jan Steen.—The Sacrifice of Iphigenia. No subject can be
well imagined more foreign to the talent and mode of thought of
the painter. In so far therefore this picture is very remarkable.
But though the figures are well arranged, and the picture in every
respect shows his usual careful and transparently-coloured work,
yet the adaptation of the same heads which figure in his own
charming but vulgar line leaves that tragi-comical impression on
the mind that might be expected.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—Diana ; evidently a portrait. Though
this picture has somewhat faded, yet the great delicacy of the
head, and the grace of action, render it very attractive.
LADY GARVAGH.
Raphael.—This is one of the most pleasing cabinet pictures
by the master that I am acquainted with. The Virgin, a most
beautiful and delicate figure, seated on a bench, with the Child
on her lap, is stooping over the infant St. John, who, holding a
green reed cross in his right hand, reaches, with an expression
of the liveliest joy, at a pink, which the lovely Infant presents
to him. Between two arches is seen a mountainous landscape,
with buildings of a light tone. This little picture, in which the
figures are about one-third the size of life, has, among the
known pictures of Raphael, the most resemblance to the Madonna
della Sedia, and may perhaps have been painted a little earlier, in
the first part of his residence in Rome. The whole has a delicate
harmonious effect. The flesh, which is yellowish in the lights, and
lightish brown in the shadows, agrees extremely well with the
pale broken rose-colour of the under garment, and the delicate
bluish-grey of the upper garment of the Virgin. A handkerchief,
whicn she wears on her head, is of a pattern like that of the upper
sleeve of the Madonna della Sedia. In the seams and glories
gold is used, though very delicately. The execution is parti-
cularly careful, and it is in an excellent state of preservation.
COL. RAWDON — LADY GARVAGIL Letter XV11.T.
PICTURES BELONGING TO COLONEL RAWDON, M.P.
Among many very good pictures of a second and third rank
which adorn the rooms of this gentleman's residence, the following
two appeared to me particularly remarkable :—
Jan Steen.—The Sacrifice of Iphigenia. No subject can be
well imagined more foreign to the talent and mode of thought of
the painter. In so far therefore this picture is very remarkable.
But though the figures are well arranged, and the picture in every
respect shows his usual careful and transparently-coloured work,
yet the adaptation of the same heads which figure in his own
charming but vulgar line leaves that tragi-comical impression on
the mind that might be expected.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.—Diana ; evidently a portrait. Though
this picture has somewhat faded, yet the great delicacy of the
head, and the grace of action, render it very attractive.
LADY GARVAGH.
Raphael.—This is one of the most pleasing cabinet pictures
by the master that I am acquainted with. The Virgin, a most
beautiful and delicate figure, seated on a bench, with the Child
on her lap, is stooping over the infant St. John, who, holding a
green reed cross in his right hand, reaches, with an expression
of the liveliest joy, at a pink, which the lovely Infant presents
to him. Between two arches is seen a mountainous landscape,
with buildings of a light tone. This little picture, in which the
figures are about one-third the size of life, has, among the
known pictures of Raphael, the most resemblance to the Madonna
della Sedia, and may perhaps have been painted a little earlier, in
the first part of his residence in Rome. The whole has a delicate
harmonious effect. The flesh, which is yellowish in the lights, and
lightish brown in the shadows, agrees extremely well with the
pale broken rose-colour of the under garment, and the delicate
bluish-grey of the upper garment of the Virgin. A handkerchief,
whicn she wears on her head, is of a pattern like that of the upper
sleeve of the Madonna della Sedia. In the seams and glories
gold is used, though very delicately. The execution is parti-
cularly careful, and it is in an excellent state of preservation.