Identifier: gri_33125007719665 (find matches)
Title: The early Flemish painters; notices of their lives and works
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897
Subjects: Painting, Flemish Painting
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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duce a deep impression; andthe colours are so bright, so clear, and so admirablycontrasted that we necessarily yield to a grateful senseof rest. The donors of tins beautiful altar-piece areCatherine Van Ryebecke, her son Adrian Bultynck,and her husband Pierrre Bultynck, the latter knownas a substantial citizen and currier, who served asechevin of Bruges in 1477, 1478 and 1480.1 It wasobserved by a local chronicler of the last century, whosaw the altar-piece in a chapel of the Church of NotreDame at Bruges, that an inscription on the framingtold how the picture was presented by Pierre Bultynckin 1480, to the guild of curriers with the proviso thata miserere and deprofimdis should be recited before itafter each mass.2 1 Le Beffroi, u. s. II. 267. 2 Munich Pinakothek. Cabinets, No. 63. Wood, 0.76 h. by1.82. This picture is not quite correctly called the Seven Joys.It was given to the eorporation 1479 before Easter (1480, n. s.)by Pierre Bultynck. (See the inventory of the property of the
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Back ofFoldoutNot Imaged CHAP. XI.) HANS MEMLING. 279 In 1482 Memling finished the Annunciation in thecollection of Prince Radzivil at Berlin, a picture de-scribed by Dr. Waagen, as of very original conceptionand marvellous delicacy;1 but he also designed thebeautiful portrait of the same date at the Uffizi; and itis not improbable that the two years subsequent to1480 were spent on works commissioned for Italianpatrons. The portrait of the Uffizi is a very solemn anddignified representation of a man in prayer with hishands joined on a desk, the head full of life, the handsof select shape and colour. It once belonged to theHospital of Santa Maria Nuova, and was perhaps partof a diptych or triptych, in which the half length of St.Benedict at the Uffizi was framed.2 But the best ofMendings pieces at Florence is the Madonna of the curriers of Bruges in Le Beffroi, u. s. II. 268. In 1780 it was soldfor 20 livres to an Antwerp dealer named Van Cock (lb. ib. 265),and by him sold without the

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