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Title: De luxe illustrated catalogue of the modern paintings forming the private collection of the late John H. Converse of Philadelphia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Converse, John H. (John Heman), 1840-1910
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Height, 30^ inches; Width, 25 inches. Beside a table placed under the window of an alehouse a maid-servant standswith an empty stein in her hand. A ring of beer marks where it has stoodupon the table and some coins are beside it, together with a china pipe, atobacco bag and a hat. These belong to an old gentleman who sits divingdown into his pocket for the balance of his score. He is dressed in a bluish-green coat over a red waistcoat and reddish-brown breeches. In the rear onthe left a door opens into a kitchen where the back of an old woman is seen. Signed at the lower left, V. Brozik.
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No. 59 eug£ne girardot FRENCHContemporary ORIENTAL CHECKER PLAYERS Height, 28$i. inches; Length, 39/^ inches. The scene presented is the interior of an Oriental coffee-house. At the rearis a sideboard on which cups and glasses are arranged in rows. An attendantstands near it in green vest and white bloomers. At his left, in a sort ofalcove, two white-draped figures are reclining on a bench against a wall.Meanwhile in front of the chamber two Arabs seated on a mat on the floorare playing checkers. One of them has his back to us, draped in a browncloak with a cream-lined hood. Seated opposite to him so that his face istoward the spectator, his opponent with a cigarette in his mouth is in the actof moving a piece. He is dressed in a white tunic and scarlet cloak. ANubian, draped in purplish-blue, reclines beside him and smiles as hewatches the play. Signed at the lower left, Eugene Girardot / No. 60ARTHUR FERRARIS HUNGARIAN (1864- ) VISIT OF THE GRAND SHEIK TO THE CAIRO UNIVERSITY Heigh

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