Copenhagen

T H E SIGHTS OF COPENHAGEN.

the Elders, and a large mythological subject, Nymphs deco rat­ ing a co rnucopia for the victorious Hercules. Amongst the examples of Snyders the large fruit-picture is specially noticeable. Its strength, richness, and beauty make it one of his best works. There are several goo d specimens of Dutch portrait-painting at the b eg in n in g of the seventeenth century — stately citizens with their w ives and daughters, daintily depicted in their best finery by Mierevelt, Nicolaes E lias, Ravensieyn, Moreelse, and others. Of the pictures by Rembrandt, both of the portraits belong to his latest and best period. The male portrait is especially rem arkable for its perfect, picturesque beauty. The female portrait is supposed to be that of Hendrikje Stoffels, who was the com fort of the artist’s old age. In the picture of Christ at Emmaus, R em brandt has almost repeated the composition of his famous pain ting in the Louvre, bu t he has increased the beauty and sentim ent of the picture by altering the light effect. Finally, the Foreign Section of the Gallery contains many good Dutch landscapes and marine paintings —a magnificent van Goyen; a large and beautiful picture by Dubbels, rep re ­ senting a fresh, stormy day on the coast of the Zuyder Sea; several g o o d examples of Simon de Vlieger; five of the finely executed little pictures in which van der Neer has depicted the calm of evening by a Dutch canal, with the moon ap ­ pearing th ro u g h dark clouds, or town and country in the fanta­ stic glare of a distant fire; and four landscapes by Jacob van Ruisdael, the two smallest of which are perfect gems. Fine pictures by the anim al-painters, Potter, Cuyp, Jacob van der Does, and Jacomo Victor, and still-life and flower-pictures by Willem Kalf, van Huysum , and others, contribute to make the collection an attractive one to all lovers of Dutch Art. — Count M oltke's Gallery situated in D ronningens Tvergade, contains chiefly pictures of the Flemish School of the seven­ teenth century. There is an excellent and characteristic study

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