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Title: Catalogue of paintings and drawings.
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Art Museum
Subjects: Art Catalogs
Publisher: Worchester, Massachusetts
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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s. He Is the one Italian of the later Renaissance whorivals some of the great Netherlandish and German painterson their own ground, while yet retaining certain purely Italianqualities—feeling for true design and the power to sum up vividlyand simply. Oil on canvas, 34 inches by 24 inches
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PORTRAIT OF ELEANOR OF PORTUGAL (?)FLEMISH, SIXTEENTH CENTURY 46 FLEMISH, SIXTEENTH CENTURY PORTRArr OF KLKAXOR OF FORI rc;AL (?) The portrait of Eleanor of Portugal (?) has been allribiiled tothe Master of the Female Half-Lengths. However, its rela-tion to other pietures attributed to this master is one of subjectrather than of style. It seems possessed of the homelier Flemishvirtues of strength, truth, and clarity, and lacks the refinedelegance of Lady Jane Grey, belonging to Lord Spencer and thePortrait of a Toung Wovian in Vienna. In our picture the figure is robed in velvet of rich, almostluminous red, and about the shoulders is fur of soft texture.\\ arm orange tones enter into the various parts of the instru-ment. Close by is a table covered over with yellow-green. Allthe tones have that rich colour in shadow which was, perhaps,better attained by the use of the clear, hard, varnish-like mediumof the Flemish painters than in any other way. The red-brownsand the greens are arrang

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