Identifier: frick-31072002473207 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur the late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq. New York (electronic resource)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 American Art Galleries
Subjects: Lawrence, Cyrus J
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO

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Xo. 77 JOIIX LEWIS BROWN FRENCH (l 825-18<)0) CHASSEURS THE hounds have met on a wide rolling common, crossed bya sandy road and swelling on the right into a low hill, crownedwith trees, and a small wood grows on the left. The freshgreen of the leaves, the color of the grass, and the tender blueof the cloud-covered sky. show that the time is in the earlySpring when all nature is young and vigorous. In the fore-ground an officer in uniform talks to a scarlet-clad member otof the hunt mounted on a fine grey horse, while a man and awoman canter up along the line of the woods. A coach andfour has driven up and is unloading its occupants, and a whipis endeavoring to restrain his unruly pack with the flickeringlash of his crop. The scene is gay with the colors of the uni-forms, and the quick pattering hounds and impatient horsesgive life and movement to the picture. Sigurd tit the hirer right, John Lewis Brown. Height, 20 inches . length, 25 inches. Purchased from Messrs. Durand-Ki ki .
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• No. 78 DEWEY ARCH, SEPTEMBER, 1899 BY JEAN FRANCOIS RAFFAELLI No. 78 JEAN FKAXTOIS HA FT A F L LI FRENCH (1845- ) DEWEY ARCH, SEPTEMBER. 1899 As animated scene on Fifth Avenue, painted in the Winterof I8i>!>. The ground is covered with snow and the streets arealive with hurrying pedestrians, men, women and children,while cabs and carriages pass to and fro, adding to the move-ment of the picture. Oil the left rise the white walls of theold Fifth Avenue Hotel and on the right are the leafless treesof beautiful Madison Square. The centre of the scene is occu-pied by the beautiful triumphal arch erected by the genius ofStanford While in honor of Admiral Dewey and his bravesailors. An avenue of graceful double columns supported bystatues forms a vista leading the eye to the culminating beautyof the arch, its beautiful proportions set oft by the superposedstatue of victory drawn by her prancing horses. Iteyond thearch, the buildings of Fifth Avenue appear in the distance,and overh

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