Above it (379) Andrea del Sarto. Charity. A fine example of Andrea’s soft and tender colouring.
*523. Portrait of a young man. Long attributed to Raphael. More probably Franciabigio. Pensive and dignified.
452. Titian. Alphonso of Ferrara and his Mistress. A fine portrait, with its colour largely faded.
Above it, 154. Good portrait by Van Dyck.
539. Murillo. The Immaculate Conception. Luminous and pretty, in an affected showy Spanish manner. Foreshadows the modern religious art of the people. An immense favourite with the inartistic public.
**121. Gerard Dou. The Dropsical Woman. A triumph of Dutch painting of light and shade and detail. Faces like miniatures. The lamp and curtain like nature. Illuminated on the darkest day. Examine it attentively.
293. Metsu. Officer and Lady. Another masterpiece of Dutch minuteness, but far less fine in execution.
526. Ter Borch. Similar subject treated with coarse directness.
**551. Velasquez. The Infanta Marguerite—a famous portrait.
A little above it (229), Sebastiano del Piombo. Visitation. Compare with the Ghirlandajo in the Salle des Primitifs. A very favourable example of this Venetian master, painted in rivalry with Raphael. It well exhibits the height often attained, even by minor masters, at the culminating point of the Renaissance.