| Show RARE THINGS IN OIL hayr has completed tho picture on which he has been engaged for tho last two years the subject is entitled may morning on magdalen tower at the oxford university and includes portraits of several eminent magdalen men SOME few years ago the paris picture dealer ferret bought a picture for ten francs in a rag and bone shop ho soon discovered that it was a portrait by jordaan Jor daen and got rid of it for francs to the late M the diplomatist the picture which is in jordaens best manner has just fetched francs has presented at saint dizier a landscape by emile micael called the abandoned village normandy the painter is best known as a writer on art having published volumes on rembrandt and as well as a large book on the museums of germany A LIFE SIZE portrait in oil of boothe is said to have been discovered among the effects loft by his musical friend zeller german papers report that it avas painted in 1810 when the poet was sixty years of age by the ill fated artist gerhard von kugelgen who was i murdered in dresden in 1820 there must be some error in the dates since goethe was in 1810 in his sixty A similar portrait is in the possession of prof kurschner of stuttgart A of the village of Pe ronse near belfort haa been incited by the discovery of the alleged rembrandt at le becq pecq to hunt up a picture which cost him one and a half francs some two years ago he bought it from a family about to sot out for america bat after awhile as it attracted no attention consigned it to the garret the picture shows st joseph with the infant jesus in hta arms on showing it to local connoisseurs it was voted an old master if not a genuine raphael and speculators have already started up in order to reap tho reward of a canny purchase at last accounts the tailor would not sell until the arrival of an expert from paris A FAMOUS rembrandt lately in the possession of senator allard of brussels has reached america it is the portrait of an admiral mr william has brought it over to rival it not surpass the gilder which was sold to mr havemeyer at tho same time mr obtained possession of works of jfrank bials jacob cuip janssen and rubens tho aubens is a portrait of a woman which mr compares with the lady given in full length in the portrait by rembrandt of himself which hangs in tho at munich he considers that the single figure is the same as this lady who is generally considered to bo isabella brant the painters first difo |
