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Title: Catalogue of masterpieces by "the men of 1830" : forming the private collection of Mr. H. S. Henry, Philadelphia
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Woodward, Robert B., 1840-1915, former owner NBB Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912 Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924
Subjects: Henry, Harry Samuel, 1856-
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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s of luxuriantly grow-ing verdure, and in the immediate foreground on the right is a small pool of water.The pasture slopes gently upward to the middle distance under scattered trees,which, with full foliage, extend in rounded masses against the skj^ sloping indiminishing perspective from the upper left to the distance; cows, scattered overthe pasture, are feeding on the rich grass, some of them in light and some of themin the shadows. The moon, gleaming through a veil of summer mist whichspreads over the cloud-covered sky, forms the focus of the comjiosition, just abovethe mass of trees in the middle of the picture. On the right, in the distance, thepasture, with numerous irregularities of surface and one or two clumps of trees,slopes gently down toward the sea, where the gleam of strong moonlight isintensified by contrast with the deep-toned green. Sifjned al lite lower left, Daubigny, 1875.Collection of Madame Mauciiand, Rheimn, 1897.Purchaxed from Messus. Autxiuk Tooth & Sons.
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LES CONTREBANDIERS ALEXANDRE GABRIEL DECAMPS No. 11 ALEXANDRE GABIUEL DECAMPS 1803—1860 LES CONTREBANDIERS /^ Height, 21 inches; width, 18 inches Seuted at a rough wooden table in a simple interior is an Italian peasant dressedin the rough garments characteristic of his class: a pointed high hat, striped withtwo or three colors, a full white coarse shirt, short blue knee breeches and raw-hide sandals. Standing near him, back to the spectator, is a companion, whowears riding breeches and closely fitting black boots with spurs. He has depositedhis coat, hat and various other articles on a stool and on the floor nearby. Alarge flask of wine stands on the table, and a small child, just tall enough tolean upon the board, watches the two men. Over the group is a print of theMadonna and Infant with an oil light underneath, and against the wall tothe left hang a gun and a water bottle, while on the right, standing on the shelfof a hooded fireplace, is an earthenware jar. The interior is ill

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