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Show Tribute to Painter's Skill. One of the atlll life paintings by Jan van Iluysen in the muneurn at The Hague was recently Injured, but It Is believed, the perpetrator was neither vandal nor thief. Tho picture represents a basket of fruit on which a number of Insects have gathered. On a pale yellow apple, ap-ple, which Is the centorploce in the cluster of fruit. Is a largo fly, painted so true to nature, so Bay the officials of the gallery, tbat the canvas was Injured by some one who endeavored to "shoo" It and brought his cane or hand too close to the canvas. "A tribute to the painter's genius," says the letter recording the fact, "for w hich the work had to suffer." |