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Title: Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Hugo Reisinger
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Firmin-Auguste Renoir French: 1841— L\ ^ ) ™ 55—BAIGNEUSE Height, 16 inches; width, 12% inches A plump young woman with rosy cheeks and lips andTitian hair, is seated, nude, on white and scarlet drap-eries in a sequestered retreat in a wood, or the shadycorner of a garden, engaged at her bath. Her warmhair falls loosely down her back, which is in the coolshadow of the feathery foliage about her. She is seatedback to the observer and turned toward the left, at themoment bathing her left arm, and her face is in profile. Signed at the to-cer right, Renoir.Purchased from Julius Oehme. New York, 1907.
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*> ro Henri J. T. Fantin-Latour French: 1836— 56—STILL LIFE: FLOWERS Height, 17 inches; width, 14 inches In a square glass jar of greenish hue, standing on thecorner of a brownish table, is a closely bunched bou-quet of flowers from a modest garden, in which oneseems to detect asters and marigolds, in their soft colorsof rich quality. Yellow, brown, creamy white and deepreddish purple blossoms, flowering above rich green,come out in a softened light against a neutral brown wall. Signed at the upper left, Fantin; and at the upperright is the date, 1861. Purchased from A. Preyer, The Hague, Holland. No. 57 ENVIRONS DE BEAUVAIS, VERS MARISSEL; LE RUISSEAU A LARBRE TORDU BY J. B. C. COROT / Jean Baptiste Camille Corot French: 1796—1875 57—ENVIRONS DE BEAUVAIS, VERS MARIS-SEL; LE RUISSEAU A LARBRE TORDU Height, 18 inches; width, 13 inches One of the beautiful, silvery, Corot landscapes, of trees,water, figures, atmosphere and clouds, each and allspeaking in the soft, sympathetic

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