646. Attributed to Brueghel: Paying tithes.
644. P. Brueghel the Younger: A village merry-making (“Kermesse Flamande”). With more than the usual vulgarity of episode.
722 and 724. Capital portraits.
Good Still life, etc.
Room F
contains nothing which the reader cannot adequately understand for himself. Omit Room G for the present (it contains the Dutch Masters), and turn instead into
Room H,
mostly devoted to works of the School of Rubens.
End Wall, 305. Rubens: *The Last Communion of the dying St. Francis of Assisi. A famous work, in unusually low tones of colour—scarcely more than chiaroscuro. St. Francis, almost nude, is supported by his friars. Above, angels, now reduced to cherubs, wait to convey his soul to Heaven. Painted for the altar of St. Francis in the Franciscan Church of the Récollets. See it from the far end of the room, where it becomes much more luminous.
On either side, 662, good portrait by S. De Vos (himself, dashing and vigorous: every inch an artist): and