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Title: The Vienna galleries : giving a brief history of the public and private galleries of Vienna ; with a critical description of the paintings therein contained
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: Boston : St. Botolph Soc.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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sters own invention. Several large mythological scenes by Frances-chini, and a copy of van Dycks Venus andVulcan, of the Imperial Museum, complete thewall decoration of this magnificent apartment. The Fifth Salon is almost exclusively devotedto works by Anton van Dyck, with one notableexception — a work by one far greater than he. Van Dyck is represented here in every mannerof his productive power, as fully as we saw it inthe Imperial Museum. Foremost stands that mag-nificent Portrait of Maria Luisa van Tassis(Plate XXXII), one of the finest female portraitswe have by van Dyck. It was manifestly paintedin his Antwerp period, after 1625, when he re-turned from his four years stay in Italy, and beforehe left for England in 1632. This was decidedlythe best period in the artists career, when he hadreaped the full fruits of his study of the Italianmasters, and before his excessive facility and hisdesire to please the Court at Whitehall made himlose the little sincerity he ever possessed.
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VANDYCK PORTRAIT OF MARIA LUISA VAN TASSISPlate xxxii MgBRi LiechtensteinCollection Tlbe Xiecbtenstein Collection 223 Maria Luisa van Tassis, the daughter of a patri-cian Antwerp family, is here clothed in a magni-ficent costume of black velvet, filmy cambric, andprecious point-lace, and carries a huge fan ofostrich feathers. A heavy string of bright pearlscircles her throat and hangs over her bosom. Allthis, and perhaps with still greater art of delicateskill, we see in the later portraits of his Englishperiod. But what is lacking there we find here— more character in pose and features. Scarcelyever do we see in van Dycks portraits such ananimated, roguish look in the eyes and playingaround the mouth. The golden tone points alsoto this middle period. Another portrait has become famous as ofWallenstein when thirty-two years old. He isdressed in a dark velvet costume, with a collaretof delicate lace setting off the strong features. Thewrist of the hand rests upon the hilt of a rapier

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