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Les Fils de P. P. Rubens. Peint par Vandyck 
Grevé par Pichler, 
This print was publithed at the Bureau 
of Arts and Indufry at. Vienna, and is a 
very fine piece of art; it is engraved in 
mezzotinto, and with an effect weigh 
does honour to the artift. 
Le Mort de Caton. M.A. Carravagio pint. 
Pichler feulpt, Mexzotinto. Vienna. 
This is a very fine defign, . but, like 
moft of the works of this mafter, has 
fomething local, extravagant, and dif- 
gutting init. He has chofen that point 
of time where Cato is tearing open his 
wounds with his hands. The figure is 
evidently painted from nature, and gives 
an idea of the portrait of an individual ; 
but it has nothing of that general air 
and flern philofophical charaéter which 
we annex to the idea of a Cato. 
Se Proceedings of Learned Socteties. 
[Aprilt, 
4 Dead Chriff. Painted from Crimi by 
P. P. Rubens. Mexzsotinte,  Publifhed ‘at. 
Vienna. 
In this defign Rubens has mixed a great 
deal of his own, and it will remind every 
one who-has feen his copy of The laft Sup- 
per, from Leonardo da Vinci, of the 
bloated fiat-headed apoftles, which he has 
there introduced. We do not mean to 
{peak of the principal figure (the Dead 
Chrift) which is extremely fine; but of 
the attendants, who are almoft all of them 
vulgar and common-place. Yet, on the 
whole, this and the two articles’ which 
precede it, are the belt fpecimens which 
we have feen of the German fchool; they 
difplay marks of an improved tafte, and 
pofiefs a large portion of fterling merit. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE 
FRANCE. 
EXTRACT of the NOTICE of the La- 
BOURS of the CLass of LITERATURE 
and FINE ARTS, during. the FIRST 
QUARTERLY SITTING Of YEAR X1.— 
By CITIZEN SICARD, ome of the st#- 
CRETARIES. 
ENERAL REYNER has lately pre- 
fented to the Inftitute of France, a 
tunic and fome remains of clothing found 
in certain fubterranean excavations made 
at Sakapa in Egypt. The three claffes of 
the Inftitute have nominated commiffaries 
to make a report on thofe valuable ob- 
jects. Citizen Mongez, appointed to this 
labour, has informed the claffes, that the 
Minifter of the Interior had made a dona- 
tion of the glaffes in which they are hermeti- 
cally inclofed; and that the elegant frame, 
furmounted on eriffins, has been executed 
by Citizen-Jacob, under the direction of 
Citizen Peyre. 
We may form a pretty accurate idea of 
the Egyptian tunic, by comparing it with 
the tunics worn by thedeaconsand fub-dea- 
cons of the Catholic religion, only fuppefing 
thefe latter to have long fleeves and not. 
epen, aswas formerly the mode. It isadorn- 
ed with embroidered pieces of a fort of in- 
laid patch-work; fome defcend from the 
fhoulders ; peer come over the fhoulders, 
and below them, before and behind; and 
Jaftly 2 fimilar pieces wrap over the fleeves 
towards their extremities, The colour of 
the ftuff is a marigold yellows and the 
embroideries’ are puce, or dark brown. 
The deign is of no particular fignifica- 
tion, and has no reference either to ob- 
jects in nature, or to hieroglyphics, or to 
chara@ers of writing. The ttuff is been 
woven ina loom, but the broideries ap- 
pear to have been made a fils comptes, 
that is to fay, according to the procels of 
point-work in tapeftry (au petit point.) 
As to their nature, the chemilts have ad- 
mitted that the yellow ftuff of the tunic 
was of animal matter. In the broideries, 
on the contrary, the yellow tiflue, or the 
canva{s, is of vegetable matter, and the 
brownx thread of animal matter. It would 
be prefumption to attempt a more precife 
explication with refpect to the nature of 
thefe fubftances, becaufe there does not 
exift any means of tracing the animal 
and the plant which furnifhed the threads 
of the weft. 
General Reynier could obtain no other 
information from the inhabitants of Sa- 
kapa, who fold him this tunic, than what 
they reported of their having taken it” 
with other objects from a’ cavern filled” 
with fand which they had emptied out. 
Weare unable to give a moreaccurate ac- 
count relative to the time wherein the tunic 
was worn or as to the perfonage who wore © 
it. The reporter makes it appear, that ~ 
it did not belong to a Macedonian, nor to 
a Greek eftablifhed in Egypt; for it has 
fleeves which come down to the wrift; 
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