The Stranger in France: Or, a Tour From Devonshire to Paris
The Stranger in France: Or, a Tour From Devonshire to Paris
John Carr
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La Vierge, Tenfant Jesus, la Madeleine, et St. Jerome, by Antoine Allcgri Correge, is considered to be a picture of great beauty and value. There arc also some glorious paintings by Reubens. I have thus briefly selected these pictures from the rest, hoping, at the same time, that it will not be inferred that those which I have not named, of which it would be impos- sible to offer a description without filling a bulky volume, are inferior to the works which I have presumed to mention. The record...ing pen must rival that matchless pencil, which has thus adorned the walls of the Museum, before it can do justice to such a magnificent collection. This HALL OF STATUES. I09 ' Tilts exhibition is public three days in the week, and at CHAt^. otlatT times is open to students and to strangers, upon their \ producing their passports. On public days^ ail descriptions of persons are here to be seen. The contemplation of such a mixture . is not .altogether uninteresting. The sun^browned rugged plebeian, whose mind, by the in- fluence of an unexampled political change, has been long alien&ted from all the noble feelings which religion and huma- nity inspire, is here seen, with his arms rudely folded over his breast, softening into pitjri before the struggling and sinking sufferers of a deluged world, .
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