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Title: Catalogue of the Ehrich Galleries collection of valuable paintings : by the masters of the classic Italian, Dutch, Flemish, English, Spanish, and French schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Ehrich Galleries
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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PORTRAIT OF A COURT-LADY

The technical perfection of the Anatolian rug on the balus-
trade, where a pretty lady of the Court of Louis XV has placed
the cage of her pet bird, makes one certain that Raoux studied
such Hollanders as Gaspard Netscher. The reds of the rug are
completed by the strong deep red of the curtain. Coloring and
drawing are intelligent and self-contained. The painter has re-
lied on strong contrast of light and shade.Large decorative particularly suited to Louis XV
interior.
On canvas; height, 47% inches; width, 25/^ inches.

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RICHARD WILSON

English School

1714-1782

Wilson, the son of a parson, one of the teachers of Turner
was a landscape-painter of great merit. Ruskin says: With
the name of Richard Wilson the history of sincere landscape art,
founded on a meditative love of nature, begins for England.
His first years of work were devoted to portraiture. Going to
Italy at the age of thirty-six, he took up landscape-painting as his
life-work. His style is altogether original. Following nature
as his guide, he adopted a manner distinguished for its boldness
and fidelity to nature, yet entirely classical. His views are se-
lected with rare judgment and taste.

ITALIAN LAKE WITH CASTLE A SCENE

probably in England but treated in the Italian spirit,
which Richard Wilson did much to increase in Great Britain.
Summary painting, good composition.
On canvas; height, 19 inches; width, 28 inches.

PORTRAIT OF COURT-LADY

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JEAN RAOUX

1677-I734

Catalogue No. 33

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BERNARDINO GATTI

Italian School

1495-1575

Lanzi says that Gatti deserves to be considered the great mas-
ter of the school of Cremona. He was the most talented of the
pupils of Corregio. Sweetness is one of the chief characteris-
tics of his coloring, and the relief of his figures, like those of his
instructor, is every way perfect and complete.

ADORATION OF THE INFANT CHRIST

A brilliant group in its composition and the variety of
movement shown by its component parts. A classic shepherd
with staff, dead lamb and offering of live pigeons at his feet kneels
before the manger on which the baby lies. A white light streams
upon the Bambino and illuminates the group.
On canvas; height, 38³/₄ inches; width, 29¹/₄ inches.

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GEORGE MORELAND

English School

1763-1804

George Moreland, the painter of pigs, the pupil of his
father, the hard worker and hard drinker, is more and more
winning the favor of discriminating collectors. His simple
pictures, depicting rural scenes and personages, have a charm

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