Identifier: illustratedcatal00amer_8 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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early summer, when the sky clears and thickensby turns, and all the picture betokens the bracing conflict of pleasant sunshine and gath-ering cloud. In the middle distance a dun cow and a white one are feeding side byside, and the distant stretch of meadows basks in the clear light of a faint blue sky, whichis creamy towards the horizon, and spread above with warm gray buoyant clouds.Farther towards the front, however, on the right, looms up a lowering mass of drabbishhue, restless and threatening, and beneath the shadow of it stands across trie foregrounda red ox with white upon his head, which is turned towards us. To his left is a littlepool bordered with reeds, and behind him moves away a black cow. With what grandeur the red and black of these bulky beasts accord with thestrong, broad treatment of the foreground and the sternness in the sky, contrasting also soeffectively with the growth of tenderness in the receding planes of the picture. Height, 23 inches ; length, 33^ inches.
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ALEXANDRE DECAMPS 1803-1860 41 — Landscape The pictorial caprice of which Decamps was so fascinating a master is charminglyillustrated in this little landscape. Near the centre of the foreground is a brook, with abank on the right of warm yellow and brown rocks, thatched with mossy turf. Seenabove a hollow is the figure of a man firing at a duck which is flying over thewater. Behind him the ground descends into a little gully lined with bushes, beyondwhich it undulates to distant hills lying blue beneath a horizon of rosy cream and gray inlayers, the sky above being greenish-blue under a canopy of dark gray clouds. The pic-ture has a lovely mellowness of color and warmth of atmosphere, and is full of piquantsurprises of light. Signed at lower left. Height, 12 J/z inches; length, 17 inches. CONSTANT TROYON 1810-1865 42— A Fisher Boy In this unusual example of Troyons art a fisher boy is represented approachingover the sand with a basket across his back. His slaty-green trousers are

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