This little picture is a fair specimen of the Master.
(Bryan Collection.)
B-121. The Marriage of St. Catherine. (36X27½.) Oval Top. Jan Memling.
The picture is in remarkably fine condition, and, aside from its intrinsic merit, is important in the history of Art. When purchased by the donor, its beauties were hidden beneath the accumulated blackness of ages; otherwise a private American fortune would have failed to obtain it, as the Director of the National Academy of Brussels, partly suspecting its value, was a competitor for its possession. It was purchased at the sale of the well-known Collection Quedeville.
(Bryan Collection.)
B-122. The Annunciation. (17X17.) Copy from Jan Memling.
This picture, as well as the preceding, is from the Collection Quedeville, and was supposed, for a long time, by some, to be an original; but a comparison of it with the "Marriage of St. Catherine," just noticed, will soon convince even the least practised eye of the error of this belief.
(Bryan Collection.)
B-123. View of an old City on the Rhine. (18½X25.) Jan van der Heyden.
(Bryan Collection.)
B-124. Landscape. (25X32½.) School of Mindert Hobbema.
(Bryan Collection.)
