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Title: Catalogue of paintings and drawings.
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Art Museum
Subjects: Art Catalogs
Publisher: Worchester, Massachusetts
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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bly by one of the artists whose works are grouped togetherunder the name of Maitre de Moullns. That there Is a strongFlemish note In spirit and composition cannot be questioned andwe are Inclined to agree with the Providence Museums assign-ment of it to that school. But Flemish ideas entered into Bur-gundlan art through visiting artists and the existence of certainFlemlsh elements of style in our picture does not entirely pre-clude the possibility of Its having been painted In Burgundianterritory. The cope and mitre of the Bishop are richly ornamented. Thefloral figures and architectural incidents are painted in brillianttones of red, brown, and blue. The donor wears a brown garmenttrimmed with black fur, with a tunic of red. Owing to repaintingsome of the colour is questionable. There Is careful detailthroughout and considerable mastery In portraiture. In spiteof the detail there is a massiveness and a grandeur more Flemishthan French in spirit. Oil on panel, 41 inches by 30^^ inches
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PORTRAIT OF A MANJAX MOSTAERT 26 JAN MOSTAERT Flemish, ca. 1475-1555PORTRAIT OF A MAX Jan Mostaert of Haarlem is now identified as the so-ealledMaitre dOultremont. Many pictures by him and many not b\him were included under this name, some to his credit and othersto his discredit. Italian influence is strongly shown in man) ofMostaerts paintings, others assigned to him are influenced b\Holbein, and others again carry on a true Flemish tradition of\an Eyck, Memling, and Van der Weyden. Mostaert is moreimportant for his Flemish characteristics than alien ones.Indeed, he may be described as the last painter to carry on thetradition of \ an der Weyden. He was successful as a painter ofhistorical subjects as well as portraits. The latter are very rareas many were destroyed by fire at Haarlem in 1571. The faces in Mostaerts portraits have usually a touch ofmelanchoh, or at least a very serious expression. Our panel isno exception. It is a stud) in brown and has that self-composedcharacter c

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