Identifier: frick-31072001452285 (find matches)
Title: Early English, Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Blakeslee Galleries, 353 Fifth Avenue .. (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Blakeslee Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council – METRO

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langelo. His Paradise at the Ducal Palace in Venice is the largest picture on canvas in existence. A worker who never knew fatigue, experimenting in and positively inviting the difficulties of his art, the results of his lifetime, whether in portraiture, composition, or decoration, are all of the most interesting, serious, masterly qualities, and he gave to all he did dignity, authority, and the ineffable charm of genius. This delightful canvas of the two sober, thoughtful Venetian senators is unmistakable in its thoroughness and artistic rendition. The men are side by side, each face seen in three-quarter view. The man to the left has a full beard, while the others is not so luxuriant. Both are garbed in the sumptuous ermine robes of state, with collars showing. The painting is frank, direct, and certain, while the modelling is all that could be asked. Needless to add that the color has all the attractiveness of this master of pigment. in the collection of Mr. Stanford White. o H o s o Put O u
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CO o <CO No, 53-FRANS VAN MIERIS. 1635—1681. The Toilet. Height, 12 inches. Width, io inches. PAINTER to the Prince of Holland and having the highest appreciation all through his career, van Mieris was one of the distinguished genre artists of his day. His pictures, of which he painted many, are in nearly all the galleries of Europe. Dresden has fourteen; Munich an equal number; nine are at the Ufiizi at Florence; six are at the Hermitage, St.Petersburg, while three are in the Louvre in Paris, and there are three in Buckingham Palace, London. A lady in this panel sits at her toilet table; she is handsomely dressed in stuff of yellow, trimmed with fur. An older woman is seen at the other end of the room by a fireplace, and great attention has been paid to the detail throughout. Na 54. JOHN CROME (OLD CROME). 1769—1821. Landscape. Height, so inches. Width, 40 inches. ALTHOUGH Crome was nearly forty years of age before he finally exhibited in the Royal Academy, he had for s

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