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Show I PAYS REM PRICE FOR JLP1TI I P. A. B. Widener of Phila. I clelphia Now Owns the I 'Small Cowper Madonna t I NEW YORK, " Feb. 7. The purchase I by P. A. B. Widoner of Philadelphia oi I the "small Cowper Madonna," by Ka-I Ka-I pbacl, vrns announced today. The price, I said to bo in excess of $700,000, ere-I ere-I ates a record for a single art tranEac-I tranEac-I tion in this country. The previous rec-I rec-I ord was Mr. Widener 's purchaso of I "Tho Mill," by Rembraudt, for I $o00,000. , , I Other paintings which havi been I bough i by art collector here at high I pricey, arc: . ., I "Portrait of the Dulce of Olivnres, I bv Velasquez, purchased by Mrs. Coins I P. Huntington for $400,000; ' Portrait I of Self, Wife and Child," by Prans I Hals, nur.rhasod bv Duven brothers for I .4 i,uf0; "Stroch." by Rubeus, pur- I thawed bv Andrew ('"arnceio for $300.- I (.I); "Portrait of the Hon. Anno b. I i:imoaibft." bv Gaincsborough, pur- bv 11. C. Friek for $400,000. S Ibo "Vinnll Cowper Madonna," also I 1 jown as tho "Panshangor Kaphacl," i v. as recently e hipped lrom England, vhero it was purchased Inst November bv Duvc-a brothers for ?o00,000. . The r future wan first offered to tho .National ( nllcrv in London, but funds were not r r vaMnble for its purchase. : The picture was painted about 1505 when the artist was twenty-two years old. It. is on a panel l!4 inches in height and 17 inches wide and was orig-j orig-j itmliv acquired by Georgo Nassau, third earl "Cowper. when he was British nvin-I: nvin-I: lstcr at Florence, in 17S0. " The nicture, which Morcli, the lead- 'ijg autbovitv on Raphael, describes as j the loveliest "of nil Raphael's madonnas, J ' belongs to the master a early Florentine i period. The execution is easy and ! graceful and the drawing of the hands. ; and especially those of the Virgin, is ) of an elegance seldom seen in other I worhs of Raphael. ) The madonna is seen seated on a ; stono seat near a bank overlooking un i onen landscape. She holds the nude child on her left arm. She is dressed in red. with a blue mantle lined with green losely thrown round her waist and over her knoes. The. background shows on the left a winding river flowing betweon wooded-banks. wooded-banks. To the right is soon the church of San 13emardino. near UYbino, standing stand-ing in bright sunshine under an almost cloudless sky of exquisite, graduating blue. |