Hans Memling. Alfred Michiels

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city of Cologne itself is represented twice in a precise way with some of its principal monuments. Nothing, in fact, demonstrates knowledge of the ancient edifices of Rome.”) Künstlerlexicon, volume VI, p. 94.

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Litterally: “L’année mil quatre fois cent, huit fois-dix, moins un iota” (“The year one thousand, four hundred and eighty, less an iota”) that is, less one unit.

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This painting, which was owned by Alliance des arts, was offered to the Belgian government in 1847. However, the Count Amédée de Beaufort, then Director of Fine Arts as pure conceit, did not understand the arts and had effectively nothing to do with them. As a result I do not know where this painting has ended up.

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The original deeds are reproduced in the Journal des beaux-arts, published in French at Saint-Nicolas, 1861, p. 21 and those that follow.