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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48701	A journey to Paris in the year 1698 by Dr. Martin Lister.	Lister, Martin, 1638?-1712.	1699 (1699)	Wing L2525; ESTC R14927	102,964	264

were impatient of the Company of Women in their Religious Rites lest they should contaminate and spoil all their Devotion The Romans on the contrary thought Religion became Women better than Men for besides the general parts they had in common with the Men in Adoration of their Gods they had also peculiar ones where the Men were not concerned Tully bids his Wife supplicate the Gods for him for he tells her he thought they would be kinder to her than him Upon some such Principle probably their Prophetesses were in esteem M. Viviers I saw the Apartment of Monsieur Viviers in the Arsenal it consists in 7 or 8 Ground Rooms looking into the great Garden These Rooms are small but most curiously furnisht and have in them the greatest variety and best sorted China Ware I ever saw besides Pagods and China Pictures Also elegant and rich Bureaus Book-Cases and some Paintings of the best Masters That which pleased me most amongst the Paintings were the Pieces of Rambramts that incomparable Dutch Painter A Girl with a Cage in one Hand and looking up after the Bird that had got out and was flying away over her Head She had Fright Amazement and Sorrow in her Looks The other is an unlucky Lad leaning upon a Table and looking with Mischief in his Eyes or that he watcht to do some unhappy turn The 3d is a young Gentleman in a Fur Cap en dishabille after his wonted manner The two first are the most natural Thoughts and Dress that can be but nothing certainly ever came near his colouring for Flesh and Garments This part he studied passionately all his Life and was ever trying Experiments about it and with what success these and many other Pieces shew These Three Pictures of Rambrant are all of young People and are finisht with all the art and perfection of Colouring as smooth as any Limning which makes the Judgment of Philbien of him appear not just for he fitted his Paint according to the Age and Nature of the Subjects he wrought I had the pleasure of seeing them again and again M. le Nostre Monsieur le Nostre's Cabinet or Rooms wherein he keeps his fine things the Controller of the Kings Gardens at the side of the Tuilleries was worth seeing He is a very ingenious old Gentleman and the Ordinance and Design of most of the Royal and great Gardens in and about Paris are of his Invention and he has lived to see them in perfection This Gentleman is 89 years old and quick and lively He Entertained me very Civilly There were in the 3 Appartments into which it is divided the uppermost of which is an Octogon Room with a Dome a great Collection of choice Pictures Porcellans some of which were Jars of a most exraordinary size some old Roman Heads and Busto's and intire Statues a great Collection of Stamps very richly bound up in Books but he had lately made a Draught of his best Pictures to the value of 50000 Crowns and had presented them to the King at Versailles There was not any thing of Natural History in all his Cabinet I was several times with him and once he carried me into an upper Closet where he had a great Collection of Medals in 4 Cabinets most modern amongst them there were 4 large Drawers 3 of which were the Medals of King William near 300 The 4th Drawer was of King William's Ancestors and Family he had been 40 years in making this Collection and had purchased many of them at vast Rates He has certainly the best Furniture for an Historia metallica that I ever saw The French K. has a particular Kindness for him and has greatly inricht him and no Man Talks with more freedom to him he is much delighted with his Humour and will sit and see his Medals and when he comes at any Medal that makes against him he will say Sire voyla une qu' est bien contre nous as though the Matter pleased him and he was glad to find it to shew it the King Monsieur le Nostre spoke much of the good Humour of his Master he affirmed to me he was never seen in Passion and gave me many Instances of Occasions that would have caused most Men to have raged which yet he put by with all the Temper imaginable In this Cabinet I saw many very rare old China Vessels and amongst them a small Roman Glass Vrn very thick made and ponderous of a blue Sea colour the two Ears were Feet divided into 4 Claws but the very bottom of this Vessel was smooth and very little umbilicate and for this reason I cannot tell whether it might not be cast and not blown Luxemburgh P. The Palace of Luxemburgh is the most finisht of all the Royal Buildings it is very magnificent well designed were it not for the triflng Intersections or round and deep Jointings of the Columns which looks like a Cheesemongers Shop and which is below the grandeur of the Orders so hard a matter it is to have a true Relish of the ancient Simplicity and not to add impertinent Ornaments And to say the truth there are not many things in Paris where this Chastity is strictly preserved amongst those where little is to be blamed are the South East Front of the Louvre the Facade of St. Gervais and the whole Building of Val de Grace And this Wantonness in additional Ornaments may perhaps be one reason why the Doric is more practised here at this day the Modillions naturally admitting greater variety and according to the intended use of the Building In this Palace is that famous Gallery where the History of Maria of Medicis is Painted by Rubens Though this was done 70 years ago it is as fresh as at the first so great a Master he was in Colouring His Flesh is admirable and his Scarlet for which if he had not a secret not now understood he had less Avarice and more Honour than most of our Modern Painters 'T is certain the goodness of Colours was one of the great Cares and Studies of the late famous Painters and that which seems most to have obliged them to it was the necessity they put themselves upon to Paint all their own Designs and more particularly the present Dresses And though Rubens in his History is too much a Libertine in this respect yet there is in this very place which we now describe much truth in the habit of his principal Figures as of King Henry the Fourth the Queen her Son the 3 Daughters and the Cardinal though indeed the Allegoric assistants in all the Tableaux are very airy and fancifully set out His Scholar St. Aut. Vandyke did introduce this Novelty too much in England where the Persons would bear it as the Female Sex were very willing to do who seem in his time to have been mighty fond of being Painted in dishabille 'T was this that cut out of business the best English Painter of his time Cornelius