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Guercino's Sibyl figures with a cottage interior by Teniers, and Lely's Prince Rupert looks down with lordly scorn on Jonah pitched into the sea by the combined efforts of the two Poussins. The link between Berghem's cows and Del Sarto's Holy Family was doubtless supplied to the minds of the hanging committee by recollections of the manger.
'Rattle the bones? what is that? 'Don't you know? and here this promising young peer manually explained his meaning. 'What do you play at? asked the Duke. 'Hazard, for my money; but what you like. 'Where? 'We meet at De Berghem's. There is a jolly set of us. All crack men. When my governor is here, I never go. He is so jealous.
So far did he carry this principle, that many of his lesser works seem absolutely mere transcripts or descriptions of pictures, where the sentiment is rather inferred than expressed; and in some, for example that which we are about to quote, he even brings before the reader what may be called the process of mental painting. This is as perfect a landscape as one of Berghem's sunniest.
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