A TRATELLER AT BERLIN". 153 



tures of none but Flemifh mafters, among which are 

 chiefly admired a great quantity by Rubens and Van- 

 dyke ; the rnofr. fuperb pieces by thefe two matters are 

 feen in the tribune itfelf. Here again we meet with 

 fome beautiful Rembrandts, in which number one 

 particularly ftruck me, reprefenting a prince of Ghent, 

 who, in priion, holds up his hand in a threatening 

 pofhire to his father, who is looking in through the 

 window, a piece which I had already feen, exactly as it 

 is here, in the collection of Mr. Hoare at Stourhead 

 in England. — The other wing is devoted to the Italian 

 fchool ; the performances of it, however, do not abound 

 here, any more than in almoft all the galleries of Ger- 

 many, that of Drefden excepted. We find among 

 them fome, though not very excellent, Raphaels, fe- 

 veral pieces of Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto, 

 and the 16 of Correggio, exactly as it is feen at Cartel. 

 In the gallery itfelf are none but large pieces : but there 

 is ftill another fmall chamber added to the left wing, 

 defrined to fmall pictures, which, on account of their 

 judicious felection, I am tempted to prefer to the large 

 ones in the gallery. Here are feveral by Correggio^ 

 Teniers, Gerhard Dow, and a number of excellent 

 van der Werfs. In both collections, it is particularly 

 remarkable, that you not only meet with no flower and 

 cattle pieces, but likewife no battles nor martyrologies ; 

 .in ihort, not one melancholy fubject. I leave it to 

 you, whether you do not feem to find herein a con- 

 firmation of what I hazarded above concerning the tafte 

 of the king in the choice of his pleafures. 



The palace in town, in which the king relides du- 

 ring winter, and bears the name of the old palace, is 



not 



