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Letter IY.
NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL.
263
2. A female portrait in a black-and-white dress. To the knees.
Of uncommon elegance of conception and tenderness of colouring,
and very remarkable as showing in every part the influence of his
contemporary Velasquez.
Philippe de Champagne.—1. Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin,
taken in front. Very animated, and carefully carried out in a
clear colouring.
2. Portrait of La Mere Catherine Agnes Arnauld, of the Port
Boyal Convent : the same who is represented in prayer in the
well-known picture in the Louvre. An admirable drawing.
Jean Clouet.—Portrait of Leonora, sister of Charles V. and
second wife to Francis I. Compared with two pictures of this
Princess by the master at Hampton Court (vol. ii. p. 363), and in
the possession of M. de Minutoli in Silesia, this is too hard, and
may rather be supposed to be an old copy. From the Bernal
collection.
Fkanqois Clouet.— 1. Portrait of the Queen of Charles IX.,
an Austrian Princess. Very careful, but somewhat smoothly exe-
cuted. From the Bernal collection.
2 and 3. King Henry II. and his son the Duke d'Alengon on
horseback. Two miniatures of the most delicate execution. Know-
ing no authentic miniatures by this painter, I cannot pronounce
with certainty as to the correctness of this title. From the Bernal
collection.
Portrait of Jeanne d'Albret, a careful Limoges enamel, almost
life-size. A great rarity.
Leopold Pobert.—A Neapolitan woman with a boy upon the
ruins of a house overthrown by an earthquake. A beautiful pic-
ture. This frightful scene is rendered with much feeling in the
heads, and with great mastery of execution.
Nicolas Poussin.—The Murder of the Innocents, a compo-
sition of few figures. This otherwise good and genuine picture is
rendered somewhat unattractive by the action of one of the mur-
derers, who is treading on a dead child.
Hyacinthe Rigaud.—The youthful Louis XV. in his coro-
nation robes. Whole-length figure, life-size. One of those pic-
tures of stately pomp which this painter so well understood to
represent.
Laegilliere.—A male portrait, both in conception and in
NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL.
263
2. A female portrait in a black-and-white dress. To the knees.
Of uncommon elegance of conception and tenderness of colouring,
and very remarkable as showing in every part the influence of his
contemporary Velasquez.
Philippe de Champagne.—1. Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin,
taken in front. Very animated, and carefully carried out in a
clear colouring.
2. Portrait of La Mere Catherine Agnes Arnauld, of the Port
Boyal Convent : the same who is represented in prayer in the
well-known picture in the Louvre. An admirable drawing.
Jean Clouet.—Portrait of Leonora, sister of Charles V. and
second wife to Francis I. Compared with two pictures of this
Princess by the master at Hampton Court (vol. ii. p. 363), and in
the possession of M. de Minutoli in Silesia, this is too hard, and
may rather be supposed to be an old copy. From the Bernal
collection.
Fkanqois Clouet.— 1. Portrait of the Queen of Charles IX.,
an Austrian Princess. Very careful, but somewhat smoothly exe-
cuted. From the Bernal collection.
2 and 3. King Henry II. and his son the Duke d'Alengon on
horseback. Two miniatures of the most delicate execution. Know-
ing no authentic miniatures by this painter, I cannot pronounce
with certainty as to the correctness of this title. From the Bernal
collection.
Portrait of Jeanne d'Albret, a careful Limoges enamel, almost
life-size. A great rarity.
Leopold Pobert.—A Neapolitan woman with a boy upon the
ruins of a house overthrown by an earthquake. A beautiful pic-
ture. This frightful scene is rendered with much feeling in the
heads, and with great mastery of execution.
Nicolas Poussin.—The Murder of the Innocents, a compo-
sition of few figures. This otherwise good and genuine picture is
rendered somewhat unattractive by the action of one of the mur-
derers, who is treading on a dead child.
Hyacinthe Rigaud.—The youthful Louis XV. in his coro-
nation robes. Whole-length figure, life-size. One of those pic-
tures of stately pomp which this painter so well understood to
represent.
Laegilliere.—A male portrait, both in conception and in