Identifier: highquality00amer (find matches)
Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. 3JAKOB MARIS Ditch 1838—1899 AMSTERDAM Height, l^Vi inches; length, IT1/^ inches Buildings along the congested water-front of the thickly settled cityextended hack from the left and entirely across the picture, their redand gray walls and roofs and picturesque roof-lines—with here andthere a mast intermingled—making an attractive and effective massbeneath a blue sky in which there are large, heavy clouds of creamy-white and brownish-gray. Below, the water of the foreground carriesmany reflections, a confusion of boats appears along the shoreline,and a heavily laden boat with a single sail is in the center of the stream,which in the right mid-distance is crossed by a stone bridge of two arches. Signed at the lower right, J. Maris. PureJhisal from A. Preyer, The Rogue.
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No. 4PEASANT LEADING A COW HV ANTON MAUVE No. 4ANTON MAUVE Dutch 1838—1888 PEASANT LEADING A COW Height, 14% inches; length, 20 inches ft \ On a light but sunless day, the sunshine screened by all-prevailinggray, vaporous clouds, a Dutch boy in patched trousers and sabots isleading a Holstein cow along a rutted farm-road, between cultivatedfields where green growths appear above the dull brown earth. Theboy and his charge are close in the foreground, the cow lowering herhead toward the roadside grass, coming toward the spectator. Amass of low trees bounds the distance on the right, and toward theleft—beyond a single distant church that rises against the horizon—all is flat land as far as eye can see. Signed at the lozcer right, A. Mauve. From the collection of L. Somzee, Brussels, who bought it direct from the artistin 1885. Purchased from M. Kxoedler & Co., New York.

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