horsemen galloping to right on the river-*bank; in background, left, under a rock shaded by trees, shepherds and their flocks around a fire. Collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by I. C. Marinus; C. Galle; R. Lowry. Same composition with changes, Cassel Gallery, to which it was returned in 1815 from Paris.
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Flight into Egypt, Murillo, Duchesse de Galliera.
By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; canvas. A lovely landscape, with the Madonna and St. Joseph pacing along a shady path on the banks of a river. The Virgin's head is very beautiful; the head of the ass is wonderfully painted.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 328.
By Adrian van der Werff, Hague Museum; wood, H. 1 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 3 in.; signed, dated 1710. The Virgin, with Jesus in her arms, is seated upon an ass led by Joseph beside a stream, near which are trees and the ruins of a portico. Painted by the artist for his daughter, who sold it for 4,000 florins to J. van Schuylenburg, at The Hague, from whom it passed through several other hands to the Hague Museum. Carried to Paris under the empire; returned in 1815. Engraved by Avril in Musée français.—Filhol.
Subject treated also by Guido, Brussels and Naples Museums; Carlo Maratti, Vienna Museum; Il Scarsellino, Dresden Museum; Alessandro Turchi, Madrid Museum; Luca Cambiaso, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; Gaudenzio Ferrari, Church of Minorites, Varallo; Lodovico Cardi, Louvre; L. Bassano, Madrid Museum; Murillo, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; id., Pesth Gallery; id., Mrs. Culling Hanbury, Bedwell Park, Herts; Adam Elsheimer, Munich and Dresden Galleries, Louvre, and Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Domenico Feti, Vienna Museum; Filippo Lauri, ib.; Herri de Bles, ib.; Joachim de Patinir, Munich and Madrid Museums and London Gallery; Velvet Brueghel, Besançon Museum; Frans Francken, elder, Dresden Museum; Frans Francken, younger, Uffizi, Florence; François Boucher, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Eugène Devéria (Salon, 1838); P. A. Jeanron (Exposition Universelle, 1855); Joseph Beaume (ib.); J. J. Bellel (ib.); Paul Flandrin (Salon, 1861).
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FLINCK, GOVAERT, born at Cleves,
Jan. 25, 1615,
died in Amsterdam,
Feb. 2, 1660.
Dutch school;
history and portrait
painter, pupil
of Lambert
Jacobzen at Leeuwarden,
then of
Rembrandt, under
whom his
talent developed
so rapidly that after one year his pictures
could scarcely be distinguished from those
of the master. He left Rembrandt in 1638,
and took the freedom of Amsterdam in 1652.
After Eeckhout, he was the scholar who approached
nearest to Rembrandt. His best
pictures are of the period 1640-50; later,
having studied the old Italian masters, he
aimed at precision of form rather than at
