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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Works of Art in the Possession of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, at the Time of His Decease: Together With Two Letters From Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and a Fac-Simile of an Original Unpublished Letter From Himself
The number and value of the works of art found in the possession of Rubens at. The time of his death, are strikingly illustrative of the character and situation of the man. They equally shew his attachment to his profession and the extent of his pecuniary resources. The former indeed is so essential to the formation of a great painter, that it seems scarcely possible that any one should ever attain to excellence without it; and, happily for the artist, he has this privilege over the majority of the rest of man kind, that the same efforts which are directed to the attainment of his daily bread, administer equally to his present pleasure and his future fame. The pictures, 810. Left by Rubens, are a proof of a life spent in the fullest and most lucrative employment: those enumerated in the Catalogue are said to have produced the sum of And these were not the whole of the property that he left connected with art; for Michel states that his widow.
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