The early Flemish painters; notices of their lives and works (1872)
Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896, Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 · London, J. Murray · leaf 396
Diirer onhis way down (to Flanders) came to a powerful city(Cologne), and was invited by the authorities to look ata noble picture (Stephens). He admired it greatlywhereupon he was tauntingly informed that the artisthad died in a hospital. Was it not strange, he wastold, that men should be found… … Back ofFoldoutNot Imaged CHAP. XIV.] ITS INFLUENCE ABEOAD. 351 a profession and one leading to such a pitiful end.Durer made a quaint reply, and there the matterended. The subject of Stephens picture, or rather ofLoetheners picture, supposing the two men to be iden-tical, is the Adoration of the…
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