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The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained (1912)

Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913 · Boston : St. Botolph Soc. · leaf 366

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His best subject was the Penitent Magdalene, of which there are examplesin the galleries of The Hague, Madrid, Berlin,and in the Czernin. Here the saint is repre-sented as standing in devout attitude before acrucifix. A magnificent, realistic work is The BlindMusician with his Boy, by Francisco de… … ^■5 Qbc Collection ot Count C3ernin 265 discarded the old, timid style of painting, andadopted that strong and bold one which his morefamous successors refined. He was a man ofirritable temperament who bore a bad reputation,even being accused as a false coiner. An exampleof Riberd need not detain…

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