Identifier: frick-31072000203960 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated cataloge of the costly tapestries, beautiful old laces, antique brocades and velvets, gold and enamel snuffboxes, watches, 18th century fans, Louis Quinze furniture from the collection of the Duc D'Avaray of Paris (electronic resource)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 American Art Galleries
Subjects: Duc d'Avaray
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO

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a chateau in the middle distance, together witha large stone fountain, walls, and a stone vase. The foregroundshows a group of three young people, who are dancing, while thefourth figure, playing his flageolet, is seated. Their picturesquered, blue and white costumes of the seventeenth century lends apleasing contrast to the paysage and verdure coloring. The ins-mediate foreground shows flowering plants and herbage, while talltrees filled with fruit and grapevines flank the right and leftsides. Hordcring matching the preceding panel. Length, 9 feel 2 incite*: width, 13 feet 10 incite*. 249— Narrow Panel (en suite) Presents a background of light-colored meadows anil a group ofdwellings, while the foreground shows red flowering poppy and otherplants, together with a tall tree, near which the resting travelerwatches the movements of a bird. The bordering matches the pre-ceding panels and bears name of artist on lower blue margin hand. Length. 9 feet 4 inche*; width, 3 fee( \\ incites.
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Second and Lant Afternoon 2~>0—Medium-sized Panel (en suite) The composition, with two figures, shows a sun-lit landscape,pavilion and terraced garden entrance presided over l>v a stonelion couchant. The middle distance includes a view of a small lake,while to the left of the foreground two tall fruit trees rear theirbranches high above the young man who accompanies a maidenwith bosket, toward the garden or waters edge. The immediateforeground is filled with flowering poppy ami other plants, while abird is perched to the right on a verdure-covered rocker v. Hasbordering to match the preceding panels. Length, !> feet; width, 7 fill 2 inchtn. 251—Medium-sized Panel (en suite) Pleasing landscape composition, woven with small figures; the lightmiddle distance displays hills, clustering village dwellings, a castlelower and meadows. The foreground is centered by a maiden whois clad in blended red and white, with basket, walking toward thedistant couple seen beyond a large tree,

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