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 LAZARUS leans Gallery, the regent paying 24,000 francs for it, ; bought by banker Angerstein for 3,500 guineas ; Mr. Beckford offered Raiding of Lazarus, Rubens, Berlin Museum. him c'15,000 for it, but he insisted upon guineas, and the negotiation failed ; sold, with 37 other pictures, forming Angerstein Collection, to National Gallery in 1824, for {.'57,000. One of the noblest pictures in existence. Yasari, cd. Mil., v. 570 ; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 329 ; Rosini, v. 8 ; Waagen, Treasures, i. 320 ; Angerstein Gal., PI. 1 ; Richter, 89, 105 ; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 514. By JhibcnK, Berlin Mus. ; canvas, H. 8 ft. C in. x C ft. 5 in. Christ stands at right, with extended arms, addressing Lazarus, who is quitting the tomb, assisted by Peter stand- ing behind him, and a woman kneeling in front ; another disciple and another woman raise their hands in astonishment. A good work of Rubens' middle period. Formerly at Potsdam. Taken to Paris ; returned in 1815. Sketch in Louvre. Engraved by Bolswert. Smith, ii. 108 ; Meyer, Muscen, 392 ; Lau- don, Musee, 2d Col., i. PI. 34. By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas. Christ, half reclining, half sitting, at the bottom of the picture, while Lazarus is disencumbered of his grave-clothes at the top, on the side of a rocky hill ; the persons aiding exhibit neither astonishment nor awe. Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 339 ; Burck- hardt, 745. By Otto Vaenius, Antwerp Cathedral, Eighth Chapel. Christ, standing in centre surrounded by many people, with women kneeling in front, raises his right hand ; in the foreground, Lazarus, who has just been raised from the grave beside him, is assisted by two men. Taken to Paris by the French ; returned in 1815. Landon, Musee, xiii. PL 37. Subject treated also by Leandro Bassano, Venice Academy ; Aliense, Perugia ; Giro- lamo Muziano, Louvre, and S. M. Maggiore, Rome ; Mabuse, Brussels Museum ; Lucas Cranach, the elder, Dresden Museum ; Otto Vaenius, Ghent Cathedral ; Abraham Bloe- maert, Munich Museum ; Johann Rotten- Raising of Lazarus, Otto Vaenius, Antwerp Cathedral. hammer, Vienna Museum ; Rubens, Turin Museum ; H. de Hess, All Saints', Munich ; Bon Boullougue, Church of the Carthusians,