Identifier: clyall00amer (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of paintings, pastels and water colors collected by the late David C. Lyall of Brooklyn
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912
Subjects: Lyall, David C
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 figure of a maiden, rather more than halflife-sized, seated on a jutting spur of a ledge ofrock, is in relief against a sunset sky and a deso-late, treeless landscape, through which flows abroad, quiet river reflecting the glow of early twi-light. She is dressed in a crimson, gold-embroid-ered brocade tunic, with a diaphanous blue man-tle draped across her knees. Her right handtouches the strings of a small harp and her leftrests lightly on a scroll which bears a Latin text.Her eyes are turned heavenward, as if she hearda voice in response to the chord she strikes. Signed at the left, Hebert, 1882. Height, 52y2 inches; width, 3OV2 inches. George I. Seney Collection, 1885.
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on & Co.,Baston MOISSONNEUSE BY ANTOINE VOLLON J ANTOINE VOLLON 102—MOISSONNEUSE A single figure of a peasant woman standingin a path through a wheat field, shading her eyeswith her left hand, while under her right arm sheholds a sheaf of wheat she has been gleaning.She wears a black velvet bodice, a full-sleevedchemise, and a red petticoat with gray overskirttucked up under her girdle. The ripened wheatagainst the sky forms a background to the figure,giving high relief to the black and white of theupper part of the dress, to the face with its frameof dark hair, and to the flesh of the neck andarms. Signed at the left, A. Vollon. Height, 47 inches; width, 29 inches. Painted for Mr. Lyall. //

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