and solidity, and transfuses them with a faint light glow.” -(M. R.)

Coques's Family Group, one of the artist's best productions, is supposed to be his own family. Several musical instruments lie on the floor.

David Teniers, Jr., has two dozen works here, the most important of which are a large Kermesse, three other Village Festivals, a Bleaching-Ground, a Tavern, a Chemist, a Corps de Garde, a Kitchen Interior, a Dentist, Tric-Trac Players, a Drinker, Peasants Playing Dice, Card Players, Sorcerers, and Landscapes.

David Ryckaert has two Tavern Scenes of people singing and drinking. The first has fine colour, and an air of truth that excites and holds our interest. Having carefully selected his types, the painter has ingeniously grouped them. The second picture is even superior. The figures of the peasants are droller, and the execution is firmer. Children are also enjoying themselves with shouting and playing the fife. This vulgar episode is poetised with an admirable colour.

Many of Van Thulden's works are hidden in galleries under other names, but here we find one with authentic signature and the date 1654. This is a Virgin Enthroned with her Son, receiving the adoration of three women, who represent allegorically Flanders, Brabant and Hainault.

Danaë, by Van Thulden, is a young girl, nude and lying on a bed. The golden shower is falling and she holds out her arms to it. Cupid has picked up a piece of gold and seems to taunt with it the young girl who has treated him with disdain.

"Few painters have as supple and varied a talent as

Van Thulden. He obtained the most striking dramatic effects, showed equal inspiration for comic scenes, and shone with elegance, charm and poetry in graceful subjects and finally leaped without awkwardness into those confused regions of mystic art. It might be said of him that he was the cleverest painter of the school of Antwerp. He possessed, indeed, such a skilful hand that many of his pictures have been attributed to Van Dyck and Rubens."—(A. M.)

Two works by Diepenbeck show the influence of Rubens: The Fête of Venus and Cupid and the Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite. The former represents an excavation among the rocks where the statues of the goddess and her son are objects of a special ceremony. A troop of nearly naked men and women come to render their homage, satyrs are festooning garlands about the rocks and little Cupids dance in the air. The colour is very beautiful,-the clear and lively tints that Diepenbeck loves. The second picture is also distinguished by an agreeable colour.

Van Uden, whose landscapes were highly prized by his contemporaries, has one of his best works here.

"A vast landscape shows a row of hills which rise in the background and continue to the foreground where the ground is divided into three natural steps. The upper plateau is crowned on the left by a large rustic house with a high roof, probably an inn, the chimney of which is smoking and to which a village wedding party is hastening in the plateau which is adorned with large trees which cross the entire canvas and are lost in the frame. In the lower portion some peasants greet each other and talk, or are joining the others to take part in the fête. On the right side of the picture there is an immense plain bathed by a river that breaks into various arms and halts in various pools.

"A sky sown with clouds crowns this scene; it is of

extreme simplicity and does not reveal any attempt to give to the vapours a striking or original aspect. There is the same lack of effort in the distribution of light: the landscape is illumined by a tranquil and monotonous day; you wish that the sun would throw some shafts of light to form striking contrasts. The colour is correct, gentle and agreeable, but does not offer any of those delicacies or vigorous tones that the great masters love. In sum, the entire work has a naïve appearance: it is a study after nature, made with an ingenuity that is a little too primitive." (A. M.)

The Dead Stag with Fruits is perhaps the finest work of this class by Snyders. A dog laps the blood that flows from the stag's nostrils. In this picture, the human being is of equal interest with the still-life, which is unusual. It is a young girl with a parroquet, which greatly enlivens the

canvas.

Among other works by Snyders are a Wild Boar Hunt, with figures by Rubens; and Game and Poultry on a Bench, with Rubens and his wife as cooks, the figures in this picture were also painted by Rubens.

Dresden also possesses fine fruit and flower pieces by Jan Davidz, Jan and Cornelis de Heem. Of the former, there is a beautiful group consisting of white grapes, a red and white rose, winter cherries and an anemone bound together by a blue ribbon; a large Bouquet of peonies, roses and other flowers; and Fruit and a boiled lobster on a table. Of Cornelis de Heem, note his Fruit, consisting of white grapes, figs, an orange, a partly peeled lemon and an oyster; and of Jan, a Glass of Wine standing in a carved recess of stone around which is a wreath of fruits and flowers.

Among other examples of fruit, flowers and ani