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Duke or Saint. This week Britain's National Gallery will put the panel on show cleaned, the halo and lettering removed (they are by a later hand), and identified as a lost work by the great Flemish master Rogier van der Weyden. After long negotiation with the estate of Lady Baird, who died in 1969, the gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci...
...collection is not inferior to the Met's loan. In fact, probably the greatest early American paintings belong to the MFA: John Singleton Copley's portraits and Gilbert Stuart's Martha and George Washington have few equals (not to mention Boston's John Singer Sargent canvasses). If Van Der Weyden's Christ Appearing to His Mother makes the viewer sigh, he should take a look at home- Van Der Weyden's Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, in Boston's permanent collection...
...strictly a two-dimensional world. As if straining to portray flesh-and-blood emotion, he gave his people big noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come, Dürer and Grünewald...
...gallery has built a magnifying glass in the showcase; so costly is it that the work was auctioned last March for $26,552 per sq. in. At the sale, it was called a Hubert van Eyck, but the National's curators now attribute it to Rogier van der Weyden. They suspect that St. George is one part of a diptych whose matching half, which also bears the seal of Prussia's former ruler Frederick the Great on the back, is owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza in Switzerland...
...been given paintings by the two best artists in the group-Cambiaso and Magnasco. In Detroit, Mrs. Edsel Ford gave to the Institute of Art a 15th century Flemish sculpture called Lamentation over the Body of the Dead Christ that was carved after a design by Rogier van der Weyden and for centuries belonged to the Dukes of Arenberg. The Cleveland Art Museum's acquisitions in the old master class range from a landscape by Claude Lorrain through a newly discovered drawing by Rembrandt to a sweeping view by Canaletto of Venice's Piazza San Marco...