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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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llection IN THE GALLERIES OF M. KNOEDLER & CO. No. 556 Fifth Avenue BETWEEN 4oTH AND 46TH STREETS NEW YORK CATALOGUE SALE THURSDAY EVENINGFEBRUARY 20, 1913 IN THE (JRAND BALLROOM OF THE PLAZA BEGINNING AT 8.45 OCLOCK No. 1 THE YOUTHFUL MOTHER BY JOSEF ISRAELS jL^d1 No. 1JOSEF ISRAELS Dutch 1824—1911 THE YOUTHFUL MOTHER (Water Color)Height, ll1/! inches; width, 7% indies A fair-haired young Dutch girl in a dark skirt, light waist—hersleeves rolled up—and with a bluish-white kerchief about her head, isseated in a humble home doing some knitting beside a homely cradle.She faces the spectator, her figure turned slightly toward the right,and looks down attentively at her work with the light falling brightlyon her from above and the left. On a table near her a flowering plantis growing in a pot, and behind her is seen in tones of mottled browna door with a square lintel. Signed at the lower left, Josef Israels. From tJie collection of Sir J. C. Day, London, 1909: Catalogue No. 195.
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Xo. 2MORNING OX THE ESCAUT BY PAUL JEAX CLAYS No. 2PAUL JEAN CLAYS Flemish 1819—1900 MORNING ON THE ESCAUT (Panel)Height, 9)/4 inches; length, 121/; inches fri In the fresh morning light a large number of characteristic sailingcraft of the Old World are strung for a considerable distance alongthe river, yet appear as in a group, with their tall masts and variedsails rising boldly against a light sky. Its thin clouds of fleecy whiteare tinged with a faint pink flush. A square-rigger is near the centerof the picture, the other craft being single-masters, and their canvasranges from gray-white to a creamy yellow and a buff-pink. Thegently moving water of the river is mottled with reflections of theclouds, the sails, and the dark, brown hulls, and in the distance smokerises from a steamers funnel, close in by the shore. In the fore-ground men are rowing a heavy small-boat. The picture is full ofcolor and atmosphere. Signed at the lower left, P. J. Clays. From Le Roy & Company, Paris

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