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Title: A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: National Loan Exhibition (1909-1910 : London, England) Cook, Herbert Frederick, Sir, 1868-1939 Brockwell, Maurice Walter, 1869-1958 Grafton Galleries (London, England)
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ore-arm rests withgloved hand holding the other glove. His right hand holdsa large round hat. Red sleeves, blue-black dress, open down thefront, and showing a white pleated shirt ; behind is a pilasterdecorated with devices and arabesques, and a niche in which thefigure is placed. Grey parapet cross the foreground. Canvas. 39 in. x 33 in. (0.99x0.839). The canvas has at some timebeen enlarged. Formerly in the Collection of the Hon. Mrs. Meynell Ingram. Recorded by Dr. Waagen in his Treasures of .in in Great Britain, j854ivol. iii. p. 334, as Portrait of the Reformer Martin Bucer, by Titian. Identified as Giorgiones work by Mr. Herbert Cook, and published assuch in his Giorgione (Great Masters Series), 1900, p. 86. Magazine of Art, April 1893, ^°- ^^- P- ^°^ article by S. A. Byles onTemple Newsam, and its Art Collection. Arundel Club Portfolio, 1904,No. 15. Ludwig Justi: Giorgione, 1908, vol. ii. No. 25. Not previously exhibited. Lent by the Hon. Edward Wood (from Temple Newsam). 127
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85GIORGIONE: 1477(?)-1510 Venetian SchoolTHE ADULTERESS BROUGHT BEFORE CHRIST A COMPOSITION oi eight, but originally nine, figures, in whichthe woman, in rich garments, is being dragged by hereager accusers before the Saviour, who is in the act of interposing,and with His hand moving one of the men aside and releasing thewoman from his grasp ; on the wall behind the Saviour is amedallion head, and in the right background there is a glimpseof a pastoral landscape. Judging from the highly original conception of the characters, and fromthe feeling and depth of colour, I am inclined to consider this picture a finework of the middle period of Giorgione. . . . The head of the woman as wellas that of the man leading her is very spirited ; the yellow robe has an emptylook from restoration.—Waagen : Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854,vol. iv. p. 459. Unquestionably, first on the list comes the beautiful picture byGiorgione, The Woman taken in Adultery. When it is considered what animpor

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