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Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. 14 PATH IN THE ROCKS—FORESTOF FONTAINEBLEAU BY NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LAPENA No. 14NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PENA French 1807—1876 PATH IX THE HOCKS—FOREST OF aV FONT AINEBLEA U Height, 15 niches; length, 20«* i inchet *b A broad path through an open part of the forest is seen in the leftforeground, where it passes amid huge blue-gray boulders which arecrusted over with green. Among them short but sturdy trees havefound root, and at the foot of one of these a peasant woman in brown,white and red is seated with her back against the trunk. The pathtouches the edge of a pond in the middle distance whose still waterreflects the trunks and foliage of a clump of green trees on its border.Beyond is a flat green field in sunshine, and in the distance are roundedhills. The sky is thickly bestrewn with light gray-white and brownishclouds. Signed at the lower left, N. Diaz. From the collection of Baron de la Rochette, Paris. Purchased front M. Knoedleb & Co., New York.
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No. 15LE SENTIER AU PRINTEMPS BY JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT No. 15JEAN BAPTISTE CAMLLLE COHOT Feench 1796—1875 (\ LE SENTIER AU PRINTEMPS 0 Height, 28% inches; width, 20J/4 inches A road so little used that it is well grass-grown enters a glade betweensloping banks, where blossoming wild flowers, kissed by the sunshine,brighten the loose, tall grass. The silvery-white trunk of a slenderand sinuous birch tree stands out from a group of Corots featherytrees on the right, while on the left some stouter and darker trees riseabove the picture. Beyond them a line of green and rounded hillsdotted with dwellings curves into the background toward the right,enclosing the corner of a pond, before which in the middle distance agroup of figures are seen. They are sitting and standing in the grassof the roadside, some in shadow, and one who wears a bright red wraistand a white cap in the sunlight. Signed at the lower right, Coeot. From the collection of P. L. Eveeaed, Paris, 187*3. From the Feem

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