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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tricate play of folds to her costume. This consists of an ashy purple robe,worn over a white chemise and wrapped round with dull amber drapery. Above herfloat two maidens, the upper sides of whose wings are blue, with under feathers of dovegray and white. They hold, respectively, a lyre and a scroll. In front of the Musestand two tripods, a snake coiling round and rearing above the left one, while a branchof bay leans against the other. On the left of the composition is the standing figure of Melpomene, draped fromneck to feet in slaty blue, with a grayish-purple veil floating from behind her head. Theright hand, clasping a scroll, supports her left elbow, the left hand being against hercheek. The pendant to this figure is Thaleia, whose mantle of reddish plum color isdrawn tightly over her head and form, so that only the face, looking upwards with a sadexpression, and the right hand, grasping the white undergarment beneath her chin, arevisible. Height, 85 inches ; length, 130 inches.
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91 RIGHT PANEL A maiden, representing, perhaps, Terpsichore, pirouettes upon her toes, with herback toward us and her head looking over her shoulder, as she holds aloft a tambourine.By her side skips a nude boy with head thrown back, blowing into double pipes, one ofwhich he holds in each hand. The maiden wears a robe of tea-leaf brown that leavesher right breast and shoulder bare, and round her floats a creamy drapery with goldenshadows in the swirling folds. Height, 85 inches ; width, 50 inches. 92 LEFT PANEL Garbed in a rosy robe which leaves her arms and one leg exposed, a maiden,possibly figuring Erato, stands, poising a .garland of roses above her head. At her feet,stooping to tune a lyre, is a winged girl with rich golden-brown feathers on her pinions,changing at the tip to bluish gray. Height, 85 inches ; width, 50 inches. The background throughout the series is of dull gold, enclosed in borders of laurelor wave designs. The figures possess the exquisite grace of line and move

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