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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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The subject is depicted in three sections, forming one composition.The first shows, in the foreground, fishing boats with oarsmen andsailors drawing up at a landing place, and people carrying the bodyof a man out of a rustic dwelling. The second shows the holy men inthe center of a group of people, with Saint Germain in the act ofremarking the child, on whose head he places his right hand. The thirddepicts, as a balance to the first section, other people of the country-side engaged in their various domestic occupations. The entire com-position is enclosed by a border of bay leaves, with gilt monograms,S. G., and an inscription in French (a translation of which is givenabove) in the lower center of the second section. Height, 52 inches; length, 102 inches. Signed on the third section, and dated 1879. One of the most notable and representative works of the great Frenchartist in existence outside of his mural paintings permanently incorporatedin the decoration of great public buildings.
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