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Joseph, which were skilfully transferred hither from Rome in 1888.
They were executed in 1816-18 for the Prussian consul general
Bartholdy in Rome, by the most eminent German artists then resi¬
dent in that city, and formerly adorned a room in his house, the
Casa Zuccari (since also called Casa Bartholdy). They are interesting
as being the first important creation of modern German painting.
The Interpretation of Pharaoh's dream (Xo. 587) and the *Recog-
nition of the brothers (585) are by Peter von Cornelius; the Selling
of Joseph (581), and the Seven Years of Famine (588), by Fried.
Overbeck; Joseph and Potiphar's wife (583), and the Seven Years
of Plenty (586), by Philipp Veit; Joseph interpreting dreams in
prison (584), and the Brothers bringing the bloody coat to Jacob
(582),by Wilh. von Schadow. — Sculptures: Gottfr. Schadow, *99.
Countess Lichtenau (marble bust), 212. Girl sleeping (plaster), 12.
Girl resting, *47. Goethe (marble bust); 26. Ant. Canova, Hebe;
*219. Tassaert, Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher (bronze bust);
167. Friedr. Hagemanu, Kant, the philosopher (bronze bust).
A passage (in which is No. *109. The return of the miners, a
bronze relief by C. Meunier) leads to the left from the anteroom
to —
Room III, containing works by pre - impressionistic foreign
artists. Paintings: to the left, *912. Francisco Goya, Bull-fight;
above, 892. Thomas Couture, Female head; 891. Gustave Courbet,
The wave (1870); 690. John Constable, Village on the Stour; above,
751. R. P. Bonington, Fishing boats. — 150. Jul. Lagae, Leon
Lequim (bronze bust); 737. Narc. Diaz, Sylvan scene; 692. Cow-
bet, Mill-dam; *807. Ch. Daubigny, Spring; Constable, 691. Mill
on the Stour, *889. (above), The artist's house on Hampstead
Heath; 173. Jul. Lague, Juliaan Dillens the sculptor (bronze
bust). — 901 H. Fantin-Latour, Portrait of himself; *732. J. F.
Millet, November evening; 705. H. Fantin-Latour, The artist's
wife; — *911. Fr. Goya, Maypole ; *890. G. Courbet, Eagle-owl
tearing a roe ; *893. H. Daumier, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.
In the middle, *183. Aug. Rodin, The thinker (bronze; a colossal
replica stands before the Pantheon at Paris). — The adjoining.—
Corridor (IV) also contains works by foreign artists. Paintings:
to the left, 702. Gugl. Ciurdi, Canal Grande at Venice ; 684. Gari
Melchers, The family; 711. E. Farasyn, The widow; 709. H. W.
Mesdag, Summer evening at Scheveningen; 1051. Felix Ziem,
View of Venice. — To the right, earlier works, mostly Belgian, of the
middle of 19th cent.: 742. Francois Bossuet, Before the walls of the
Alhambra; H Leys, 210. Dutch party in the 17th cent., 211. Diirer
drawing Erasmus; 39. Ferd. deBraekeleer, Quarrel after the meal.
— In the glass-cases, small sculptures by Dillens, Charpentier%
Troubetzkoy, Carries, Bourdelle, Falguiere, Steinlen, Bugattftf
Maillol. At the exit, 95. Thomas Vincotte, Catiline (bronze hniSk