A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools / Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin

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1378. AN INTERIOR WITH FIGURES.

Jan Steen (Dutch: 1626-1679). See 856.

Another of Sir William's bequests, and, like the preceding, "a bargain." "A French dealer," he wrote, "offered me £250 the day after I had bought it for £2: 3s." An itinerant musician enters the kitchen in a village inn or country farmhouse, and salutes the buxom lady of the house with a fantastic gesture of courtesy. A flute sticks out of his pocket.

1380. FRUIT AND FLOWER PIECE.

Jan van Os (Dutch: 1744-1808). See 1015.

1381. THE HOLY WOMEN AT THE SEPULCHRE.

Francesco Mantegna (Paduan: about 1470-1517.)

See 639.

For the subject, see 576. Notice the pool in the foreground on which are two water-fowl, while a tortoise crawls towards it. This picture is the same size as 639 and 1106, and the three beautiful little panels doubtless formed a series—now at last brought together again, having been long separated in three different collections.