The daily Alaskan., 1915-01-15
LOST GEMS OF ART
Many Famous Paintings Have
 MySteriOuSIy Vanished.
WORKS OF THE OLD MASTERS.

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 Among the Missing Treasures, Be.
 sides Masterpieces of Corre1grO, Titi- an, da Vrnci and Others
 There are many famous paintings by the old masters that have myNtrruuSly vanished They are known tu have been painted, but their whereabouts has been uu enigma for several hun.
 lrcI years
 From time 10 time lost pictures come again to the Knowledge of the world, GS when the original of the Dulwich VcasGuc2. the Philip w." was found in a Polish noblemuns castle; when ] the portrait of Isabel dc Ealois, King l Philip Ills third wife. by CoeiIo-the 1 original of that by Pantoju de la Cruz | in the PradO-was finally identified at ] the Grafton gallery, to which the Gaek. war uf GarOda had lent it; when ri. tiau'S "PerSeus and Ariadne" was 1 found by Sir Claude Phillips in the ! bathroom of Hertford House, and Bot. 1 tlcellis "Pallas and the Crntaur' was identified by an English critic, forgot. | ten and unnoticcd in an obscure place in the Ufizi gallery-a queer place to lose a picture in.
 | It Is declared that no fewer than 400 ! portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds have { disappeared The historians of art | the "AnOnlmO," YusSari and many an 1 othcr-sDCak with admiration of pie lures So innumeruble which have passed into the limbo of the unknown l that the announcement of d discovery 1 iS rarely treated with absolute Skep- l tiCiSm. even in the case Uf the greatest masters There is plenty of room for l the appearance of number of early i works by Valesqucz-de Beruete gives list of them-but especially the DOT. ! trait of Fonseca, which gave 10 Neles. Qucz his footing in Madrid, and more particularly the equestrian portrait of Philip IV, which placed hm so quickly upon the pedestal.
 Or take Corregcio. There Is the pic. ' ture of The Savior" a copy of which 1 hangs in tue Prado. There is the "Ee- ! pose In Egypt" the "HcrOdiaS' uiptych, ] the "St. Bartholomew" the Young 1 Man Fleeing From the CaptOrs Of ! Christ" The Birth of Venus and St ! Mary Magdalen" and others besides all lost.
 And Titlan ta group of whose mas i rerpfpces were burned in a great Eng 1 fish country houSeD, where on earth Is ! his portrait of Isabella GOnzuga and l her sou. which is known to uS through the copy by pordcnone? Giorgioue 2lsl. He is SD rare a mIster-rare alike as tO numbers and tu quality | that the recovery of his Firth of Vents" would hp an event of the very Highest importance in the world of art The AnoNimo speaks of it. hut since his day no other writer. Sn far a> eX. pcrts are aware. hats ryrr srt eyes uu it.
 Although We have 50 H!Juy hundred c#..usgs Of ;hat amazing genius, Ru
 Lcr.. ,al lo7s of a picture such as his "Camhyscs md the JUd-3" iS dis
 rinrt dgrrfrutiou. inasmnch as 1t Is said to have been one of his finest
 efforts. It was painted in 1923 for the
 magistrates hall in the town hall of
 Brussels. and no less than 5000 dOrins
 was paid for 1t.
 We might spare. pcrhapS the Head rt Christ" by Andrea del SartO Uaint
 pL in lJ2A. for similar works of bis exist. but it Is otherwise with his
 "Yisitation" of the same year, if only
 because Andrea was painter of great rst importance, historically considered
 he who broke away entirely from
 Gothic rigidity and introduced a Scnti
 mCnt and a delightful sense of gayety and sweetness that brought art home to hearts untouched by the earlier dig.
 nity and gravity which they felt op prCssiye.
 The portraits of Terburg, again, are
 delight, and a host of them exist Qn-
 cludug not q few not unworthy of
 him, but really by the hand of his pu-
 pil, Koetsl, yet we cannot read with
 out regret the list of them, as well as
 of hs exquisite subject pictures, which
 NJ. uofstede de Groots researches
 have enabled us to make. We may
 even regard with relative equanimity
 the disappearance of Nicholas Pous' sins "Rin6ldo and Armida." But on
 quite another plane Is the mystery of
 the portraits which Leonardo da Yincl
 painted for LudovicoA ASforza and which