PORTRAIT OF A LADY BY REMBRANDT
THE important and interesting portrait by Rembrandt which is here reproduced has justly been given a place of honour among the works of that master now being shown in the exhibition of portraits by old masters at the Hague; indeed, in the opinion of many good critics it is one of the greatest attractions at the Kunstkring. Since permission was given to us by Messrs. Dowdeswell to reproduce the picture, it has passed out of their hands into those of Mr. Hage, a Dutch collector, by whom it has been lent to the Hague exhibition; it was formerly in the collection of Sir Matthew Wilson. The panel, which is 30 by 23¼ inches, was painted in the same year as The Anatomy Lesson, when Rembrandt was only twenty-six years old, and belongs, therefore, to his earliest period; that this is the case is proved by the signature on the right of the picture, ‘R. H. L. van Rijn 1632.’ The identity of the lady who is the subject of the portrait has not yet been established, and beyond the fact stated on the picture itself that she was thirty-nine at the time it was painted we know nothing about her. It is unnecessary to expatiate on the merits of the picture, which speaks for itself even in the reproduction.
The oil painting by Daubigny and the pastel by Lhermitte, of which we publish reproductions by kind permission of Mr. John Balli, are good examples of the work of the two French artists. They are among the pictures which have recently been exhibited at Mr. McLean’s gallery for the benefit of that excellent institution, the artists’ benevolent fund.
POLYCHROME CHEST BELONGING TO THE OFFICE OF ARCHIVE AT YPRES
A BURGUNDIAN CHEST OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY BELONGING TO THE HOSPICES CIVILES AT AALST
PORTRAIT BY REMBRANDT VAN RIJN; IN THE COLLECTION OF MR. J. HAGE
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LARGER IMAGE
ON THE SEINE, BY CHARLES-FRANÇOIS DAUBIGNY; IN THE COLLECTION OF MR. JOHN BALLI
LE PÊCHEUR, BY LÉON LHERMITTE; IN THE COLLECTION OF MR. JOHN BALLI