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Title: De luxe illustrated catalogue of the modern paintings forming the private collection of the late John H. Converse of Philadelphia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Converse, John H. (John Heman), 1840-1910
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ng peasant girls, the sunlight streaming behindthem and adding gaiety to their gala costumes. The front girl is welcomedby a tall young fellow whose hands grasp hers as he bends to greet her. Sheseems to be a general favorite, for other men throng round her and one peasantis indulging in the antics of a dance as he snaps his fingers. Meanwhile thegirls companion stands by disconsolately as if she felt neglected. Over onthe right a man and a girl seated at a table are laughing at the dancersantics, while a young man stands eyeing the scene with an expression ofannoyance or jealousy. Farther back two musicians are mounted on aplatform, one of them leaning over the music-rest to talk to a man beneathit. A shepherd dog is lying in the center of the foreground of boarded floor.Two portraits and a picture of the Madonna adorn the walls. Signed and dated at the lower right, F. Defregger, 1882. Awarded Gold Medal, Vienna, 1882. Collection of George I. Seney, New York, 1885. Catalogue No. 195.
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No. 64DANIEL RIDGWAY KNIGHT AMERICAN(1850- ) GOSSIPS Height, 38j4 inches; Length, b\Yz inches. In a field of brown, sandy soil, interspersed with tufts of coarse vegetationand sprinkled with yellow and scarlet flowers, three peasant girls have met.One, on the left of the group, half back to us, dressed in a pale-blue skirtlined with fawn, has her hands planted on her hips as she talks to a girl wholeans slightly forward under the weight of the burden on her back She isdressed in brown with a drab apron and holds a brass-lined pot in her lefthand. Meanwhile the third girl stands a little apart with folded handsand on each arm a basket. The field is bounded on the right by a stretchof blue water, bordered with willows and poplars. Signed and dated at the lower right, Ridgway Knight, Paris, 1885. No. 65BENJAMIN VAUTIER GERMAN-SWISS(1829-1898) THE DILIGENCE STATION Height, 33^4 inches; Length, 51 inches. Groups of people are waiting in a wood-paneled room for the arrival of thediligence.

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