Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

ALBRECHT DURER 197
Psyche, by L. Giordano; to the broad decorative
pictures of Ricci in the audience-chamber.
Dosso Dossi has the " S. William taking off his
Armour" (No. 183), a fine, pathetic, impressive halflength,
with flashes of colour across the steel; and the
fine and characteristic Holy Family (No. 97), and the
quieter portrait No. 80. They are not unworthy
examples of the greatest master of the Ferrarese school,
a colourist who in his way is fitly compared to Titian.
Correggio was an artist whom Charles particularly
affected; and here we have his early Holy Family,
suggestive of Dosso, and with an exquisite charm in
the face of the Madonna (No. 276); and beside it
(No. 281) is the late S. Catherine. These are, of
course, but small examples of Charles's collection, and
of a master who can be studied most satisfactorily in
the great gallery of his native Parma. But the taste
for Correggio, with all his modernness, is a special
one, and in such a gallery as that at Hampton Court
two specimens are enough. In the Holy Family the
artificiality and affectation so prominent in his later
works are but slight. Parmegianino, his exaggeration,
may be seen in Nos. 174 and 306, the latter a charming
picture. Allori's "Judith'' (No. 99),Ithink a
copy, is impressive.
Italy furnished by far the largest proportion of
Charles's collection, but there still remain at Hampton
Court some significant examples of the art of other
nations. The fine, cold, "red-faced man, without a
beard" (No. 589) is a genuine Albrecht Dtirer, with