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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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an, with face turned towards his rightshoulder. The head is glazed in white, the tunic in colors. The backgroundis a rich blue, and the surrounding frame a polychrome wreath of leaves andfruit. By Andrea della Robbia. Fifteenth century. Diameter, 1 foot 10 inches.From the collection of Count G. Stroganoff. Portrait busts of a similar type are found in the Berlin Museum and the collec-tion of Prince Liechtenstein in Vienna. The Berlin bust is attributed by Dr. Bodeto Luca della Robbia in the Jahrbuch k. p. Kunstsammlungen, 1900, p. 31;Florentiner Bildhauer der Renaissance, 1902, p. 187. 1200 — Boy with a Dolphin. Boy, glazed in white, holds a blue dolphin over his shoulder. The palmette below isglazed in green. In the works of the Robbia school, putti of similar type werefrequently employed in the decoration of large reliefs, where they were repre-sented as bearing garlands. By Andrea della Robbia. Fifteenth century. Height, 1 foot 8 inches.From the collection of Count G. Stroganoff.
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1200 1201 — Life-size Statue. In colored faience. A child, seated, playing with a butterfly and a tulip. ByFrancois Duquesnoy. Francois Duquesnoy, an excellent Flemish sculptor, born at Brussels in 1594,was better known by the name of Francois Flamand. About 1619 he went to Rome,where he became an intimate friend of Nicolas Poussin and worked many years.He excelled in the representation of infants, and was considered by some as the bestsculptor of his time. Among his masterpieces are statues of Saint Susanna in Rome,and of Saint Andrew in the basilica of Saint Peters. He was on his way to Paris,whither he had been invited by Richelieu, when he died at Leghorn in 1646. TheMusee de Cluny contains several of his works. 1202 — Oil Painting on Glass. The Annunciation. The Virgin kneels at a prie-dieu at the foot of a bed. Theangel enters with lily branch and dove. The Father leans out of a circle ofcherubim surrounded by clouds. The painting is on the back of a thick paneof glass cast

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