2129. UNE PARADE.
Gabriel Jacques de Saint Aubin (French: 1724-1780).
A pupil of Boucher; painter, first of heroic and then of domestic subjects; also an etcher.
Spectators watching a turn with the foils by two mountebanks.
2130. THE WATER LANE.
Jan Siberechts (Flemish: 1627-1703).
It is very fitting that this painter, whose works in Continental galleries are rare, should be represented in ours; for it was the Duke of Buckingham, who brought him into vogue. Passing through Antwerp, the Duke was attracted by his work, and took him in his train to England, where, according to Walpole, he was much employed by the aristocracy. "Among the landscapes of the Flemish school," says an enthusiastic critic (A. J. Wauters), "there is not one of whom we think more highly. If his colouring lacks the brilliancy and the soft transparency of the tones of Rubens, it offers others both rare and unexpected at a time when the Flemish landscape was yet enslaved by conventional laws. Sieberechts boldly met the difficulties offered by open-air scenes and foreshadowed the daring colouring attempted by modern realism. His landscapes are true pastorals. He understood the art of giving his farm-girls and hinds real attitudes, taken from life; and how to make the various hues of vermilion and silver, blue and yellow of their costumes harmonise boldly together, which makes his works so charming, and gives them such a free and entirely personal character."
2133, 2134. "ROSES" AND "APPLES."
Henri Fantin-Latour (French: 1836-1904). See 1686.