His Florentine masterpieces are the two Henri IV pictures in this room, "Henri IV at Ivry," magnificent if not war, and "Henri's entry into Paris after Ivry," with its confusing muddle of naked warriors and spears.

Only Rubens could have painted these spirited, impossible, glorious things, which for all their greatness send one's thoughts back longingly to the portrait of his wife, in the Tribuna, while No.

216--the Bacchanale--is so coarse as almost to send one's feet there too.
Looking round the room, after Rubens has been dismissed, it is too evident that the best of the Uffizi collection is behind us.

There are interesting portraits here, but biographically rather than artistically.

Here are one or two fine Sustermans' (1597-1681), that imported painter whom we shall find in such rare form at the Pitti.