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Title: The art of the Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913
Subjects: Art museums Painting
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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om is a canvas by Ferdi-nand Bol, Moses on Mount Sinai/ which is un-fortunately almost completely hidden by the canopy.The most famous of Jacob de Wits sculpture imi-tations decorate many rooms. The city hall has been almost entirely denudedof its works of art for the benefit of the Ryksmu-seum. Still a few paintings are left, among othersa Regents group by Bol; a view of the Dam, byLingelbach; the scene of the fire of the city hall,then on the Dam, in 1652, by Saenredam; a largemilitia piece by Jacob Backer; and another groupof twenty-one guardsmen with their officers, byNicolas Elias. The Burgher Orphan Asylum in the Kalverstraathas several groups of its Directors by ArnoldBoonen, Jurriaen Ovens, and one of four elderlyladies by Jacob Backer, which is one of his bestworks. The Wallon Orphanage on the Vyzelsgracht hastwo such groups, by Wallerant Vaillant, and byvan der Heist. THE MAURIT>SHUI>S FIRST FLOOR SECOND FLOOR Io r n I z TTT V IV VI X XI 331 RCM BRANDT vm IX XIV vn 304
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c. BISSCHOP HINLOPEN INTERIOR Plate XXXIX(See page 292) Municipal MuseumAmsterdam 1 CHAPTER XII THE HAGUE GALLERIES The Mauritshuis This Museum contains almost seven hundredpaintings, about one fourth of these being by for-eign artists, principally Flemish. Two of its Hol-beins may be considered among the gems of thecollection, while the Madonna by Murillo, the royalportraits by Velasquez, and the portraits by Pierodi Cosimo rival any works by these masters in thelargest museums. Although the hanging arrangement, by reason ofnew acquisitions, is frequently changed, we willfind the principal paintings to be discussed in therooms indicated. Room I, opposite the entrance,is devoted principally to the Flemish school. Turn-ing to the left, we note a small panel by DavidTeniers, the Younger, of an Alchemist, a fa-vourite subject of the artist for the introductionof his grotesque creatures. This is not one of themost successful of the many alchemists he has 305 3o6 Zbc Hrt of tbe IRetberlanb

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