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283 Afb. 16. Jan Sanders Van Hemessen. De Roeping Van AFB.16. JAN SANDERSVAN HEMESSEN. DE ROEPINGVAN MATTHEUS. Bg..DE CHRISTuSFIGUUR RECHTSEEN STUK BIJGEWERKT ENTOEGEVOEGD IN 1630. MUNCHEN,ALTE PINAKOTHEK. Overzicht der Litteratuur betreffende Nederlandsche Kunst Engeland en Amerika, door The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. I. GENERAL. 1. Giese (Rachel). - Erasmus and the fine arts. Journal of Modern History, Sept. 1935, VII, pp. 257-79. (An account of the works attributed to him, including the pen sketches recently discovered in a manuscript of his annotations to the epistles of St. Jerome, of his relations with Durer and Holbein, and of his attitude to art.) II. SCULPTURE. 2. Michalopulo (Jeanne). -- A Flemish (?) altarpiece. Burlington lVlagazine, jar. 1935, LXVI, p. 46, illus. (Relates a carved oak reredos from the Hirsch collection to a 283 similar altarpiece from Rieden in Swabia, and suggests either that they both belong to a Lower Swabian group, or that the Hirsch altarpiece is a Flemish work of c. 1445-70 and the Rieden altar an almost contemporary German copy.) III. DRAWING. a. General. - 3. Popham (A. E.). Netherlandish landscape drawings. British Museum Quarterly, Aug. 1935, X, pp. 19-21. (Notes on four drawings from an album found in Llanover - House library and presented to the British Museum by A. Jowett. Venetian scene by L. Toeput, a castle by C. Liefrinck the younger, an Italian port by A. Casembrot, and a landscape by G. van Coninxloo.) b. Dutch. - 4. Aert Claesz. Wescher (Paul). Aert Claesz (Aertgen van Leyden), 1498-1562 - - St. Sebastian with a kneeling donor Erlangen, University Library. Old Master Drawings, March 1935, IX, pp. 65-6, illus. (A brush drawing in ink on red tinted paper, showing German influence, and previously classified as German. Here attributed to Aertgen.) - - 5. Hendrik Goltzius. Dodgson (Campbell). Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1616) Study - of a tree London, collection of Mr. F. Falconer Madan. Old Master Drawings, March 1935, IX, p. 66, illus. (Pen and ink and watercolour, signed with monogram. A description.) - 6. Willem van de Velde, Sr. & Jr. National Maritime Museum: acquisitions since the last report. Society for Nautical Research, annual report, 1934, pp. 26-126, illus. (A list, including 109 drawings of maritime subjects by the two Van de Veldes). - 7. Govaert Flinck. Rosenberg (Jakob). Govaert Flinck (1615-1660) - A pair of - peacocks Goldsche collection, Berlin. Old Master Drawings, Dec. 1935, X, pp. 46-8, illus. (Drawing in red and black chalks and sepia formerly described as Italian work of the 18th century. Ascribed to Flinck on grounds of style and its connection with Flinck's allegorical picture commemorating the birth of William, Prince of Orange, known through C. van Dalen's engraving). 8. David Teniers the younger. - Parker (K. T.). David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) - - Design for tapestry London, collection of the late Mr. Henry Oppenheimer. Old Master Drawings, March 1935, IX, p. 67, illus. (A working drawing, in pen and ink and colour wash, for an armorial tapestry not identified. With an authentic signature.) c. Flemish. 9. Roger van der Weyden. - Winkler (Friedrich). An attribution to Roger van der Weyden. Old Master Drawings, June 1935, X, pp. 1-3, illus. (Study for a head of St. Joseph, recently acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, related to the Milaflores Altar in Berlin.) - 10. Hugo van der Goes (style of) Popham (A. E.). Style of Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482) - Profile head of a girl - Harrowgate, collection of Mr. Alfred Jowett. Old Master Drawings, March 1935, IX, pp. 63-4, illus. (Claims general conformity with the style of the school.) - 11. Jan Gossaert. Winkler (Friedrich). Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse (c. 1478-1535). - The Emperor Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl Berlin Print Room. Old Master Drawings, Sept. 1935, X, pp. 30-31, illus. (Inscribed "Arnout de beer van Mecheln' , but signed "Jenni(n)". The author shows the connection with the Grimani Breviary and Simon Bening. A drawing of a warrior by Gossaert, in the Dresden Print Room, is also reproduced and described.) 284 - 12. Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Popham (A. E.). Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1530-1569) - - A stormy sea with shops and a town in the distance London, collection of Captain Bruce Ingram. Old Master Drawings, March 1935, IX, pp. 64-5, illus. (Discusses the question of date, and the unusual composition.) - 13. Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Tolnai (Karl). Three unnoticed drawings by Pieter Brueghel. Old Master Drawings, Dec. 1935, X, pp. 37-9, illus. (Three mountain landscapes at Chatsworth, one of which, together with a drawing at Dresden, served for the print Insidiosus Auceps.) - 14. Pieter de Witte. Rosenberg (Jakob). Pieter Candido (c. 1548-1628) - Study for - an allegorical figure of Ambition Berlin Print Room. Old Master Drawings, Sept. 1935, X, pp. 31-3, illus. (Important as the only drawing known for the ceiling painting made for the Kaisersaal of the Munich Residence, now in the Luitpold Gymnasium. Formerly placed amongst anonymous German drawings of the 17th century.) 15. Peter Paul Rubens. - Poole (Emily). A drawing by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640.) Bulletin of the Cincinnati Art Museum, April 1935, VI, pp. 30-34, illus. (A half- length male figure formerly in the Heseltine and Richter collections, recently acquired by a Cincinnati collector. Described in the sale catalogue as a "Probable study for a river god", but considered by Gliick to be a study of Job, possibly for the lost triptych painted for the Guild of Musicians at Brussels. The suggestions and evidence are here summarised.) 16. Peter Paul Rubens. - Popham (A. E.). Drawings by Rubens and Van Dyck from the National Gallery. British Museum Quarterly, Aug. 1935, X, pp. 10-18, illus. (Including one by Van Dyck, the Crucifixion from the Lawrence collection, drawn from the picture in St. Michel, Ghent, for the engraving by Schelte a Bolswert, and fifteen by Rubens and his school, purchased from the Peel collection, and previously in Lawrence's collection. Each is described and its history recorded.) IV. PAINTING. a. Dutch. 17. Wilenski (Reginald Howard). An introduction to Dutch art. London: Faber & Faber, 1935. (A cheap edition of a book first published in 1929 as a popular critical introduction to the exhibition of Dutch art at Burlington House.) 18. Borenius (Tancred). Treasures from the Rothermere collection, part. III. Apollo, Dec. 1935, XXII, pp. 329-34, illus. (Describes the Dutch pictures of the 17th century in the collection.) 19. Isaack van Ruisdael. - Simon (Kurt Erich). Isaack van Ruisdael. Burlington Magazine, July 1935, LXVII, pp. 7-23, illus. (Gives to the artist several pictures hitherto ascribed to Gerrit van Hees. See also the discussion of the subject between A. Bredius, J. Hewitt and the author in letters to the Burlington, Oct. 1935, p. 178, Dec. 1935, p. 279, and Feb. 1936, p. 103.) 20. Frans Hals. - Fell (H. Granville). A recovered Franz Hals. Connoisseur, Feb. 1935, XCV, p. 105, illus. (Brief note on the portrait of Hendrik Swalmius, 1639, recently come into the possession of Messrs. Asscher & Welker.) - 21. Bartholomeus van der Helst. Kay (H. Isherwood). A painting by Van der Helst. Connoisseur, March, 1935 XCV, p. 156 illus. (An unpublished version, in reverse, of the "Woman behind a green curtain" at Dresden.) - 22. Jan Steen. Martin (Willi). Jan Steen as a landscape painter. Burlington Magazine, Nov. 1935, LXVII, pp. 211-12, illus. (Publishes three unknown paintings and notes successive influences upon the work of the artist in its development from pure landscape to genre.) 285 23. Jan Vermeer. - Lambotte (Paul). An unknown portrait by Jan Vermeer of Delft. Apollo, Jan. 1935, XXI, p. 47, illus. (Note on a portrait identified before 1914 by Hofstede de Groot. The inscription and identity of the sitter are briefly discussed). -- 24. David Beck. Steneberg (Karl Eric). The portrait collection of Queen Christina (Of Sweden). Connoisseur, March 1935, XCV, pp. 130-34, illus. (A survey of the historical portraits painted for Christina by her court painters D. Beck and S. Bourdon, c. 1650, now scattered.) - 25. Jacob van Ruisdael. Simon (Kurt Erich). "Doctor" Jacob van Ruisdael. Burlington Magazine, Sept. 1935, LXVII, pp. 132-5. (Notes on the question of the identity of Jacob van Ruisdael with Dr. Jacobus Ruysdael who took his medical degree at Caen, Oct. 15, 1676.) - 26. Jacob van Ruisdael. Woodall (Mary). A note on Gainsborough and Ruisdael. Burlington Magazine, Jan. 1935, LXVI, pp. 40-45, illus. (Refers to a black chalk drawing by Gainsborough in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, copied from Ruisdael's "La Foret" in the Louvre, and relates both to the "View of Cornard Wood" in the National Gallery.) 27. Aelbert Cuyp. - Ryckevorsel (J. L. A. A. M. van). A view of lVymegen, by Aelbert Cuyp, in the Bridgewater House collection. Burlington Magazine, Dec. 1935, LXVII, p. 279, illus. (Called in the catalogue "The landing of Prince Maurice at Dort". The author re-identifies the town by means of a preliminary drawing for the picture now in the Communal Museum at Nymegen.) 28. Vincent van Gogh. - Vincent van Gogh. Introduction and notes selected from the letters of the artist. Edited by Alfred H. Barr. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935. (Profusely illustrated catalogue of a loan exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.) b. Flemish. 29. Juan de Flandes (?) - Mayer (August L.). A puzzling Flemish portrait. Burlington Magazine, Aug. 1935, LXVII, p. 88, illus. (Portrait of a man in the Palacio Nacional, Madrid, formerly attributed to Durer, but here to a Flemish painter, perhaps Juan de Flandes.) - 30. Master Michiel. Baldass (Ludwig). The portraiture of Master Michiel. Burlington Magazine, Aug. 1935, LXVII, pp. 77-82, illus. (Survey and chronology of the works attributed to the artist, with a discussion of the derivation of his style.) 31.
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