MIGNARD.
| N° 57. | (Gallery.) The Virgin, called La Vièrge à la grappe, because she is taking from a basket of fruit a bunch of grapes to present to her son. |
NICOLAS POUSSIN.
| N° | 70. | (Gallery.) The Fall of the manna in the desert. |
| 75. | Rebecca and Eleazar. | |
| 77. | The Judgment of Solomon. | |
| 78. | The blind Men of Jericho. | |
| 82. | Winter or the Deluge. |
In this collection, the above are the finest historical paintings of POUSSIN; and of his landscapes, the following deserve to be admired.
| N° | 76. | (Gallery.) Diogenes throwing away his porringer. |
| 83. | The Death of Eurydice. |
POUSSIN is the greatest painter of the French school. His compositions bear much resemblance to those of RAPHAEL, and to the antique: though they have not the same naïveté and truth. His back-grounds are incomparable; his landscapes, in point of composition, superior even to those of CLAUDE. His large altar-pieces are the least beautiful of his productions. His feeble colouring cannot support proportions of the natural size: in these pictures, the charms of the background are also wanting.
LE SUEUR.
| N° 98. | (Gallery.) St. Paul preaching at Ephesus. |
This is the chef d'œuvre of LE SUEUR, who is to be admired for the simplicity of his pencil, as well as for the beauty of his compositions.