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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. 8SHEEP ON THE DUNES BY ANTON MAUVE No. 8 ANTON MAUVE r 1 J Dutch 1838—1888 SHEEP ON THE DUNES Heighty 19 inches; length, 27 inches An undulating line of dunes extends across the picture, against a lowhorizon. To the right and overhead the sky is a dark gray; towardthe left its clouds are whitened near the horizon. Beyond the crest ofthe dunes is the sense of the vast sea, with naught visihle against thesky above the coarse grass of the dune-tops but the projecting headof a stout old shepherd, who on the hither side of the largest dunestands with his dog beside him amidst his flock. He seems to be gaz-ing far over the dune-crest and the sea. The sheep, a large flock ofthem closely bunched, are all headed in that direction, away from thespectator, but are moving slowly, as they graze. Signed at the lozcer right, A. Mauve, p. Formerly in the collection of Mr. II. Teixeira Mattos, Vogelenzang, Amster- dd in. Purchased from Scott & Fowi.es Company, New York.
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No. 9STREAM 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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