Works included in this catalogue Baudet after Valentin Tribute Money {1879} NGV [PR] [Levey gift, cat.11] Rousselet after Valentin The Four Evangelists {1879} NGV [PR] [Levey gift, cat.21-24] After arriving in Rome in about 1620, Valentin was initially heavily influenced by Caravaggio; but he then developed a distinctive blend of the latter’s immediacy with classicizing
Works included in this catalogue Audran after Spada: Aeneas saving his father {1879} NGV [PR] [Levey gift, cat.34] Picart after Spada: The Concert {1879} NGV [PR] [Levey gift, no.38] Spada, known largely as a genre painter in the lineage of Caravaggio, may seem an unlikely choice as the author of two paintings reproduced in Louis XIV’s Tableaux du
Simmons, William Henry (1811-82; English), after Maclise, Daniel (1806-70; English) Noah’s Sacrifice 1857 Engraving, c.76 x 95.5 cm Acquired by 1894 Location unknown This print reproduces Maclise’s large painting of 1847-53 (Leeds, City Art Gallery). George Landow, in The Victorian Web, discusses the prominent rainbow as a symbol of the New Covenant, quoting from Victorian