WHICH ARE THE BEST PICTURES IN THE WORLD?
i -Mr Frederic Dolman 'contributes to the Strand Magazine for .November the result i of an inquiry which he made "as to what are : the most precious pictures m the world. He submitted the question to i the curators or directors of all the best • picture galleries outside Great Britain, and lie embodies, m his article the answers - he received. The folio-wing catalogue of pictures is interesting. In each case the ■ selection of the picture has been made i by tlie official custodian of the gallery m which it appears :— The Louvre : Leonardo da Vinci's La 1 Gloconda. The Prado: Valesquez's Meninas. The Rijks Museum, Amsterdam : Rembrandt's Night Watch. :■■ The Hague Gallery : Paul Potter's "The Young Bull." .'...* THie Vienna Belvidere : Rubens Ildefonso Altar. " ■ The Berlin Gallery: H. and J. van Eyck!s "Worship of the Lamb." 1 The Dresden Gallery: Raphael's Madonna. ..';-. The Munich Pinakothek : Murillo's "The Melort Eaters." ■■.... ■....., • The Antwerp Museum: Quentin Matjsy's "The Descent from the "Cross." The Florence Uffizi Gallery : Titan's . Flora. , The Florence Pitti Gallery: Raphael's . "La Madonna della Seggiola." 1 -Tlie Boi-ghese Gallery, Rome: Titian's Sacred and Profane Love. ;. The Academy of Fine Art, Venice :. Titian's Assumption of the Virgin. L First Actor: "I understand that you [ were out travelling with a new piece." Second Actor: '!Yes, that's so." First Actor : "Did the piece have along limn?" ■ .' .;.,:. ... . ... , _;. , 1 Second Actor : "No j but the company | had a long walk.'V /
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9642, 17 January 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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241WHICH ARE THE BEST PICTURES IN THE WORLD? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9642, 17 January 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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