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from 11— 2 o’clock.
And on every Sunday from
11 — 2 o’clock throughout the year.
Den Kongelige Malerisamling, The Boy at
Gallery o f Paintings
,
occupies the upper story
o f Christiansborg Palace.
Founded by Christian
I V ., and greatly augmented by succeeding K ings
through the purchase o f different private collections,
it contains about 1 0 0 0 Paintings, among which are
m any of much value o f the Ita lia n , D u tch , and
F lem ish schools.
It is worthy o f a visit were it
only to view
Salvator Rosa’s
splendid picture o f
Jonah preaching to the Ninevites
, painted ex
pressly for the K ing o f Denmark.
Dr. Clarke,
speaking o f this painting in his "Scandinavia," says,
"The talents o f Salvator are often estimated from
his works in landscape-painting; but his landscapes
afford very inadequate proofs o f his superior merit.
H is main excellence consisted in the delineation of
story; w itness his
Conspiracy o f Catiline;
witness
also his inspiring picture in the royal gallery of
Denmark, which represents
The preaching o f Jonah
to the Ninevites.
It contains sixteen figures, all
a s large as l if e , yet they are not in the least
crowded.
A t first sigh t, a person m ight suppose
there were not more than h alf a dozen figures in