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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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soming 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 Feemyn Collection, 1875: Catalogue No. 14. Exhibition of Cent Chefs-dCEiwre, 1892: Catalogue No. 58. From the collection of A. Soubies, Paris. Recorded in )/(Eurrc de Corot by Alfeed Robaut and Etienne Mobeau-Xki.atox: No. 1963, Volume IIL Purchased from M. Knoedleb tV Co., New York.
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No. 16VENICE BY FRANCESCO GUARDI No. 1FRANCESCO GUARDI Italian 1712—1793 VENICE Height, 12% inches; length, 16x/4 inches V The canal filling the foreground is a deep blue-green, and in the dis-tance to the right of the center the water seems to connect with a pale,greenish-blue sky, with suggestions of pinkish and faint purple cloudsnear the horizon. The spectator looks across the canal, toward theleft, to the mass of the white and pink Church of San Giorgio Mag-giore, with its imposing facade and massive dome, overtopped at theextreme left by the campanile—all in strong sunshine, which causestheir reflections to brighten the dull canal. On the church plaza arepeople in varicolored costumes, and the canal is dotted with gondolasand light sailing-boats which cause white ripples in the water. The Palladia!! Campanile of San Giorgio, which appears in this painting by Guardi,tumbled in 1771, breaking up a service and killing a monk, and also injuring two others. Thetower was r

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