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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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e spectator, in the shade of a woodlands edge, is looking over thebrow of a hill out upon a broad, sunlight-flooded plain through whicha silvery-gray river takes its slowly winding course. The trees in theleft of the foreground overspread a road over the hill, on which a soli-tary horseman is making his way toward the abrupt descent that leadsdown to a village of the plain, whose roofs and steeples are visiblebeyond the hills crest. The shadowed foreground at the right is richin the red and brown autumn hues of the coarse herbage, interspersedhere and there with green patches. There is a sense of vast distancein the outlook over the plain, glowing in sunlight, as it is seen in con-trast with the rich but shadowed foreground. Far-off hamlets arewithin the extensive view, and tall trees of the distance are reflected inthe silvern river whose banks they line. Signed at the lower right, Th. Rousseau. From the collection of V. Hartmann, Paris.Purchased from M. Knoedleb & Co., New York.
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No. 11THE FERRY BOAT BY CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY No. 11CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY French 1817—1878 THE FERRY BOAT (Panel)Height, 7 inches; length, l(j inches ^ r The ferry boat, a flatboat hauled across a narrow river by a line, isused by a farmer to carry over his cattle, and some cows appear in it,one with her head over the side to take a drink from the river as theboat lies with its nose on the bank at the left. The farmer is in it,and also an old woman who stands among the cows. Other cowsappear on the bank, and washerwomen are at work on their knees atthe streams edge. Above the green, sloping bank which a farm roadascends from the river is a group of gray-white farm buildings withbrown roofs. Beyond them tall trees, green and yellow, grow alongthe bank, which becomes lower and broadens out down to the river,and on the opposite bank are tall woods in similar coloring. Theplacid river shows a few white ripples here and there, and mirrors thewoods of its banks. The light sky is f

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