The Belgian galleries : being a history of the Flemish school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and other Belgian cities (1912)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · Boston : St. Botolph Society · leaf 250
oo muchthe appearance of a yellow chalk drawing. I meanonly to compare Rubens with himself; they mightbe thought excellent even in this respect, were theythe work of almost any other painter. The flesh,as well as the rest of the picture, seems to wantgray tints, which is not a general defect of… … RUBENS LE COUP DE LANCE Plate xxv(See page 172) Musee Royal des Beaux-Arts Antwerp OSTOy^ U BLIC 4bra4 Bntwerp 185 the picture; which are certainly not enough toqualify so large a space of warm colours. Theprincipal mass of light is on the Christs body; butin order to enlarge it, and improve its…
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