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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the valuable paintings and sculptures by the old and modern masters forming the famous Catholina Lambert Collection removed from Belle Vista Castle, Paterson, New Jersey
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Roberts, W. (William), 1862-1940 Coffin, William A. (William Anderson), 1855-1925
Subjects: Lambert, Catholina, -1923 Luini, Bernardino, 1475?-1533?
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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seen in warning gesture on the right-handside of the composition. Canvas: Height, iGl/o inches; length, 66 inches. Signed, P. Makcius Simons, at the lower left. r CHILDE HASHAM, N.xV. American : 1859— 184^.4 ROOF GARDEN 1 \ The mise-en-sccne of this notable example of one of the most cele-brated of the American artists is the terrace, or roof garden, of a housein the JNIontmartre quarter of Paris. On a green bench at the left isseated a young woman in a white gown, and near her stands hercompanion, also dressed in filmy white. The faces and attitudes ofboth young women show an air of expectancy as if waiting for thearrival of a visitor. In the right foreground are azaleas, hydrangeasand other flowering plants in pots. Over the low wall which enclosesthe spacious terrace are seen the buildings, roofs and chimneys ofthe French capital. The picture was painted in Paris and some fin-ishing touches put on it by the artist in New York in 1893. Canvas: Height, 49 inches; length, 76 inches.
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11 AM I LION IT AMI J/rON ^ American : Contemporary 1 ^5—SUMMERTIME 371 Under an old apple tree two young women are cliatting. One isseated on the grass, while the other leans on a low, bending limb ofthe tree. At the left are farm buildings and, in the distance, a rangeof mountains. Canvas: Height, 48 inches; length, 74 inches. Signed at lower left, Hamilton Hamilton. J^ PUVIH DE CHAVANNE8 French: 1825—1898 \H6~THE MEETING OF SAINT GERMAIN ANDSAINTE GENEVIEVE, IN HER CHILDHOOD,AT NANTERRE In the year 429 Saint Germain dAuxerre and Saint Loup de Troyes,traveling to England to combat the heresies of Pelagius, arrive in the suburbsof Nanterre. In the crowd which has assembled at their approach Saint Ger-, main notices a child who, to his perception, bears the divine seal, and he pre- ■ diets to her parents the lofty destiny to which she will be called. This child M was Sainte Genevieve, the patron saint of the city of Paris. The subject is depicted in three sections, forming one c

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