A characteristic example of the elegant facility with which the painter rendered scenes involving gay attire.
2715. FISH MARKET, DIEPPE.
Isabey (French: 1804-1886).
2723, 2724. LANDSCAPES.
Ascribed to G. Poussin (French: 1613-1675). See 31.
These landscapes, only recently included in the official numbering of the collection, were presented by Mr. P. Pusey in 1849.
2725. CHRIST BLESSING.
Benedetto Diana (Venetian: died 1525).
"If Benedetto be the painter of the fine picture of 'Christ at Emmaus,' in the church of St. Salvatore, Venice, still attributed in the guidebooks to Giovanni Bellini, he must have been an artist of no ordinary merit, and one who gradually, from an unpromising commencement of his artistic career, attained a high place among the followers of the master. A half-length figure, larger than life, of the Saviour in the act of blessing, signed with the painter's name, in private possession at Venice, although in a very damaged condition, has a grand and impressive character not unworthy of Bellini, to whom, as to other Venetian masters of note, many works by Diana in sundry collections are ascribed. He was employed with the two Bellini and Alvise Vivarini in decorating the hall of the Ducal Palace" (Layard's ed. of Kugler, 1887, p. 333).