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from 11— 2 o’clock.
A nd on every Sunday from
11
— 2 o’clock th ro u g h o u t the year.
Den Kongelige Malerisamling, The Boy at
Gallery o f Paintings
,
occupies the u p p e r sto ry
o f C h ristiansborg P alace.
F ounded by C hristian
I V . , and g reatly augm ented by succeeding K in g s
th ro u g h the p u rch ase o f different priv ate collections,
it contains ab o ut 1 0 0 0 P aintin gs, am ong w hich are
m an y of m uch value o f th e I ta lia n , D u tc h , and
F lem ish schools.
It is w o rth y o f a visit w ere it
on ly to view
Salvator Rosa’s
splendid p icture o f
Jonah preaching to the Ninevites
, painted ex
p ressly for the K ing o f D enm ark.
D r. Clarke,
sp eak in g o f this pain tin g in his "S can d in av ia," says,
" T h e talen ts o f S alv ato r are often estim ated from
his w orks in la n d sca p e-p a in tin g ; b u t his landscapes
afford very inadequate proofs o f his sup erio r m erit.
H is m ain excellence consisted in the delineation of
s to ry ; w itness his
Conspiracy o f Catiline;
w itness
also his inspiring picture in the royal gallery of
D enm ark , which represents
The preaching o f Jonah
to the Ninevites.
It contains sixteen figures, all
a s large as l if e , y et th ey are no t in th e least
crow ded.
A t first sig h t, a perso n m ight suppose
th ere w ere not m ore th an h a lf a dozen figures in