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John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)

Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 305

An illustration from John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools, 1858, leaf 305
; but, when Jordaens tamed down his Avildnens and refined*his execution, 292 .rO*HN CASSRLUS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. productions resemble so closely those of Rubens, that they might be mistaken for some of his ruderand coarser pieces. Many a Jordaens has been set down as a Rubens, and-many a… … Even the refined and aristocratic Vandyck, in his Silenus, accomjjanied by Satyrs,* has all the coarse-ness and roughness of Jordaens. Rubens is not a whit the less rude and objectionable in that pictureof St. Lievens, where the headsman tears out the tongue of the saint by its roots, while a…

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