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Title: Catalogue of the Ehrich Galleries collection of valuable paintings : by the masters of the classic Italian, Dutch, Flemish, English, Spanish, and French schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Ehrich Galleries
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
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characterized by a beautiful and permanent coloring, and by the
graceful attitudes of his subjects.

ELIZABETH COUNTESS OF CHESTERFIELD

Pieter van der Faes, called, from the "sign of the Lily"
over which he lodged in London, Peter Lely, and knighted by
Charles II, did not often find his sitters beautiful, perhaps because
the style of dressing the hair in his day was very trying to the
handsomest face, perhaps because the royal ladies were not all
favored and the sycophancy of the Court compelled the prettiest
to look as like the royalties as possible. In this case Sir Peter
was lucky; the Countess Elizabeth is fair and surely less than
forty. And the painter has never done better; he did his best.
Look at the stunning red of the satin gown, the flashing of her
pearls, the studied elegance of her hand. Lely could not be
Van Dyck, but he ran close to the portrait-painters of the Nether-
lands next to him. From the collection of Viscountess Lismore.
On canvas; height, 50 inches; width, 40 inches.

HOLY FAMILY

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CORREGIO
14.4 -1534

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CORREGGIO
(Antonio Allegri)
Italian School
1494-1534
ALLEGRI was called II Correggio from the name of his birth-
place, a small town near Modena. His whole life was spent in
the peace and quiet of small cities, he never even having vis-
ited Rome. His style reflects the serenity of his temperament.
"Correggio looked at the world as a place in which everything is
full of happy life and soft pleasure." The characteristic of his
style is an all-pervading sweetness. Ruskin says of him: "Cor-
reggio is the captain of the painters art as such. Other men have
nobler or more numerous gifts, but as a painter, master of the art
of laying color so as to be lovely, Correggio is alone." He died
at the age of forty, having won for himself a place in the front
rank of the world's great artists'.

THE HOLY FAMILY AT REST

Intimate scene in the childhood of Christ showing the kindli-
ness of the Child. The moment may be a rest during the Flight
into Egypt—which would not prevent the artist from depicting
as background a characteristic landscape of north Italy with hills,
ravines, castles and chestnut groves !

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