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van der Weyden, Winged altar-piece, presented by Peeter Bladelin
to the church at Middelburg, with the Adoration of the Holy Child,
the Tiburtine Sibyl before Augustus, and the Star in the East; a
masterpiece, 'remarkable for the finish of the parts, the delicacy
of the touch, and the gloss of the colours'. — Above the middle
door: 719. Pieter Aertsen, Young woman and child (fragment of a
picture of the Nativity). — To the right: Jan van Scorel, 644. Por¬
trait of C. A. van der Dussen, 644a. Madonna, 644b. Portrait;
Lucas van Leyden, 574a. Chess-players, *584 b. Madonna and Child;
Sir Anthony More, 585a. Two clerics (1544; an early work), 585b.
Margaret of Parma; beside the door: 574. Style of the Cologne
Master of the Death of Mary, Portrait. — Passing through the
central door, we now enter —
Room 69. Netherlandish Masters of the 15th and 16th
Centuries. To the left, 648. Jan Gossaert, surnamed Mabuse,
Neptune and Amphitrite; Quinten Matsys,*b&l. Madonna and Child
(a masterpiece of colouring), 574c. Mourning woman, from a pic¬
ture of the Passion; 570. Maerten Heemskerck, Portrait of a girl.
— *534b. Rogier van der Weyden, Winged altar-piece with scenes
from the life of St. John the Baptist (an early work); **1622a.
Hugo van der Goes, Nativity of Christ (next to the Portinari altar-
piece in the Uffizi at Florence the most important work of the ar¬
tist); above, Rogier van der Weyden, 534. Descent from the Cross
(copy of the original in the Escorial), 534 a. Altar with scenes from
the life of the Virgin (earliest work of the master, from the convent
of Miraflores near Burgos). — Joos van Cleve, 633 a. Portrait of a
young man, *633b. Portrait of a woman; Mabuse, 650. Virgin and
Child, 586 a. Portrait, 551 a. Christ in Gethsemane (an early work);
641. Jean Bellegambe, Last Judgment. — 573. Gerard David,
Crucifixion. — We return through Cabinet 68 and enter —
Cabinet 67. German Schools of the 15th and 16th Centuries.
To the left, *586 d. Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of an old
man (a late work, of the master's English period); 638e. Albrecht
Altdorfer, Nativity; **586. Holbein the Younger, Jorg Gisze, a
Bale merchant in the Steelyard at London, one of the greatest tri¬
umphs of portrait-painting (1532); 1658. Konrad Witz, Christ on the
Cross; 583. Christoph Amberger, Sebastian Minister, the geographer
(1552). — Rear-wall: *1629. Martin Schongauer, Adoration of the
Shepherds; Albrecht Diirer, 557c. Elector Frederick the Wise of
Saxony (an early work, ca. 1496), **557e. Hieronymus Holzschuher,
patrician and senator of Nuremberg, the finest of Diirer's portraits,
painted in 1526 (purchased in 1884 for 75,000/.); *557f. Madonna
with the siskin (painted at Venice in 1506); *557 d. Portrait of Se¬
nator Muffel of Nuremberg (1526); above, 557j. Portrait of a girl.
*564a. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
(1504; the earliest authenticated work of the master); above, 556.