A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910) (1909) (14763582355)
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Title: A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: National Loan Exhibition (1909-1910 : London, England) Cook, Herbert Frederick, Sir, 1868-1939 Brockwell, Maurice Walter, 1869-1958 Grafton Galleries (London, England)
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive
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si^Je le Louvre et quil cxccutade sa main, tandis que Iautre exemplaire avait et6 pr^pari par un de ses cloveset seulement retoucht par lui.—Max Rooses : Rubens : Sa Vie et Ses CEuvres, •903. rp- 385-386. F 4» From the Collections of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-89) and theDue dOrl^ans (1798). Canvas. 80 in. x 141 in. (2.032 x 3.579). Painted about 1623-1626. l^xhibited at the British Institution. 1821, No. 50; also at Manchester,Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, No. 579; also at Burlington House, OldMasters, 1877, No. 99 ; also at the Guildhall, 1906, No. 89. Engraved by P. Pontius, R. D. Launay, Ragot, Duchange, and others. Herodotus, Book I., chap. 214. Couche, Galerie du Palais Royal, 1808,vol. ii. p. 41. Smiths Catalogue Raisonne, 1830, vol. ii. p. 206, Rubens,No. 745. Waagen : Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854, vol. iii. p. 23.Max Rooses : VCEuvre de P. P. Rubens, 1886-92, vol. iv. pp. 3-5, No. 791.Arundel Club Portfolio, 1906, No. 18. Lent by the Earl of Darnley. 42
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31VELAZQUEZ: 1599-1660 Spmiish SchoolTHE WATER-CARRIER, EL AQUADOR DE SEVILLA A SUNBURNT, wayworn seller of water in tattered brown doublet,turned to the left, with his left hand on a large earthenjar, hands a glass of water to a boy who stands beside a table onwhich is a smaller jar ; between the two principal figures is anotherboy, now but dimly seen, who is quenching his thirst. Threefigures, three-quarter-length, standing. In the Inventory of Buen Retire in 1700 the picture is called Hi Corzo,Aquador de Sevilla. It was afterwards removed to the new Bourbon Palace,and was seen in the Serenade Hall by the Italian, Caimo, together with manyother works of the master.—Ponz : Vi^ge, vi. 34. There is a celebrated Painting of a Fellow carrying Water about to sell,in the Buen Retiro.—Palomino Velasco : Account of the Lives and If^orks ofSpanish Painters, translated from the Musician Pictorium, 1739, p. 50. This is the earliest picture by Velazquez of which we have any authenticrecord.