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 *léans Gallery, the regent paying 24,000 francs for it; bought by banker Angerstein for 3,500 guineas; Mr. Beckford offered him £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.—Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 570; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 329; Rosini, v. 8; Waagen, Treasures, i. 320; Angerstein Gal., Pl. 1; Richter, 89, 105; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 514.

Raising of Lazarus, Rubens, Berlin Museum.

By Rubens, Berlin Mus.; canvas, H. 8 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. 5 in. Christ stands at right, with extended arms, addressing Lazarus, who is quitting the tomb, assisted by Peter standing 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, Museen, 392; Landon, Musée, 2d Col., i. Pl. 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; Burckhardt, 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, Musée, xiii. Pl. 37.

Raising of Lazarus, Otto Vaenius, Antwerp Cathedral.

Subject treated also by Leandro Bassano, Venice Academy; Aliense, Perugia; Girolamo Muziano, Louvre, and S. M. Maggiore, Rome; Mabuse, Brussels Museum; Lucas Cranach, the elder, Dresden Museum; Otto Vaenius, Ghent Cathedral; Abraham Bloemaert, Munich Museum; Johann Rottenhammer, Vienna Museum; Rubens, Turin Museum; H. de Hess, All-Saints', Munich; Bon Boullongne, Church of the Carthusians,