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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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No. 9 STREAM NEAR NEVERS BY HENRI HARPIGNIES No. J) HENRI HARPIGNIES ,n6 French 1819— J) STREAM NEAR NEVERS Height, 3%y± inches; width, 25% inches A narrow brook, which seems to be an outlet from a lake or pond,in a seamed and rolling country, makes its appearance between largegray boulders across whose tops the sunlight glints, and with a zigzagturn or two comes swiftly down a short, grassy slope to the fore-ground, its shallow bed broken by small, upstanding rocks. Slenderand stouter trees of picturesque trunks and clustering foliage are grayand green against a light-blue sky, whose thickening white horizonclouds are turning yellow in the sun; and to the left and in the dis-tance rise steep or rolling hills, green near by and blue afar. Theswift-coming brooklet is white where the sun hits its hastening waters. Signed at the lower left, II. Harpignies, 1902. From Messrs. Arnold & Tkipp, Paris.
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No. 10LANDSCAPE WITH HORSEMAN BY THEODORE ROUSSEAU No. 10THEODORE ROUSSEAU French 1812—1867LANDSCAPE WITH HORSEMAN (Panel) Height, 9:; i inches; length, l~:;i inches 11 ** The 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 reflect

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