709. MADONNA AND CHILD.

_Unknown_ (Flemish School; 15th-16th century).

_See also_ (p. xx)

"In Flemish pictures the varnish was incorporated with the surface

colours, and cannot be removed without destroying at the same time

the very fabric of the work. For this reason all attempts to, what is

called, _restore_, or clean pictures of the Flemish School, result only

in the destruction of the work, and by this means many fine pictures

have, for all practical purposes, perished.... (This picture) is a

lamentable example" (Conway's _Early Flemish Artists_, p. 119).

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