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Woman taken in Adultery, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre.

three years in wandering about Germany and the Netherlands, and then settled at Nuremberg, where he first appears as a citizen in 1474. He opened a large studio, or rather workshop, in which he and his numerous apprentices painted religious pictures to order, and made designs for such wood-cuts as those which fill the pages of the famous "Chronicle of Nuremberg." Rather a skilful mechanic than an artist, Wolgemuth's fame rests more upon the fact that he had Albrecht Dürer as his pupil than upon his artistic work. The pictures attributed to him are very unequal in merit, probably because many of them were for the most part painted by his assistants. The best show considerable dramatic feeling, and are painted in clear, strong colour. Works: Christ before Pilate, Louvre; Entombment, Christ on the Cross, Coronation of the Virgin, Pietà, last three with portraits of donors, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Death of the Virgin, Cologne Museum; four altar wings with Resurrection (1465), Crucifixion, Marriage of St. Catherine, Departure of the Apostles, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Peringsdörffer Altar (1488), Christ on Mount of Olives, Crucifixion, Portrait of Old Man with Felt Hat, do. of Canon Schönborn, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Portraits of Ursula Tucher (1478) and Elizabeth Tucher (1499), Cassel Gallery; two portraits of same family, Weimar Museum; Portraits of Man and Wife (1475), Amalien-*stift, Dessau; Old Man's Portrait, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; The Three Magi, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Altarpiece (1479) in Church of the Virgin, Zwickau; do. (1506-08) in Church at Schwabach; four scenes from Childhood of Christ, Twelve Sibyls, Figures of Emperors (about 1500), City Hall, Goslar; Pilate washing his Hands, and Crucifixion, Liverpool Institution.—Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Kugler (Crowe), i.