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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...a man is reaping, and a hamlet is seen beyond. WOUVERMANS. 3. A Landscape, with Haymakers. ADRIAN BROUWER. 54. Interior of a Cabaret. Five boors are drinking and smoking: one, leaning back, with an air of complete enjoyment, has just taken his pipe from his mouth; another, leaning against a post, appears Btupified. Nothing can be better in its way than this little picture. It is enough to give one a sick-headache to look at it. It is full of character, and the execution, in a rich brown tone, is yet clear and brilliant. Adrian Brouwer painted the scenes in which himself delighted--scenes of low debauchery--the interiors of Dutch cabarets, &c.'; but the man had genius, and has stamped it on all his works. Rubens, who admired the talent of Brouwer, did all in his power to redeem him from his degraded and vicious habits, but in vain, and he died at last in an hospital, a victim to his excesses: Rubens buried him at his own expense. His works are rare, and valuable for truth of character, as well as the spirit and beauty of the execution. DE LOUTHERBOURG. 55. A Landscape.--(See No. 110.) TENIERS. 56. A Village on Fire.--A small picture. SIR.FRANCIS BOURGEOIS. 57. Religion in the Desert. GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO. 58. A small Allegorical Sketch for a ceiling. CUYP. 59. A Landscape. Two shepherd boys keeping sheep and goats. Painted in a free, sketchy style: it has suffered greatly. TENIERS. 60. A Sow and Pigs; a Peasant standing by. From the collection of M. de Calonne. 9 in. by 12 in. TENIERS. 61. A Man seated, opening Muscles, another stand ing by. A Woman coming from the cottage behind. KAREL DU JARDIN. 62. A Landscape. In the foreground a woman is leading an ass down the road, by the side of which a man is seated; a white horse is conspicuous...

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