Abstract

Fine Arts: Pictures of the Flemish School

The article provides information on one of the painting of Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. It is an easel-painting on copper, perhaps fifteen by twenty inches, and represents a saturated Bacchus led by a youth and pushed by a satyr or Pan; the relief behind the figures is dark, and a good specimen of Rubens's dashing landscape, while the "ordonnance" of colors on the flesh and accessories makes it perhaps a better exemplar for the student than the master's favorite instance of a grape-bunch. The artist reserves his finest flesh-tones for the central figure, contrasting them richly with the fawn-colored fur of a creeping tiger at the left, and on the other side with his warmest tint in a piece of flying drapery from the satyr.