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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. 13THE COMING STORM BY JULES DUPRE No. 13 JULES DUPKE French 1811—1889 THE COMING STORM Height, 17V4 inches; length, 23 Vi inches A road from the central foreground curves about a high bank on theright where a few trees grow—their foliage touched by autumn—anddisappears over the crest of a low hill where at the left a brown cot-tage stands half-concealed by the contour of the ground. Before thecottage, on the left, is a thick clump of trees, with reddened bushesgrowing below them by the wayside. A peasant is crossing the roadtoward the cottage, his figure seen in full sunlight, which illuminescurling masses of gray-white clouds that are swirling across a deepblue sky. On the right, however, the darkening clouds of a summerstorm, or shower, are gathering and coming on, their advance edgesjust entering the picture. Signed at the lower right, Jules Dupre. From the collection of Walter Richmond, New York, 1899: No. 52. Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
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No. 14 PATH IN THE ROCKS—FORESTOF FONTAINEBLEAU BY NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LAPENA No. 14NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PENA French 1807—1876 PATH IX THE HOCKS—FOREST OF aV FONT AINEBLEA U Height, 15 niches; length, 20«* i inchet *b A broad path through an open part of the forest is seen in the leftforeground, where it passes amid huge blue-gray boulders which arecrusted over with green. Among them short but sturdy trees havefound root, and at the foot of one of these a peasant woman in brown,white and red is seated with her back against the trunk. The pathtouches the edge of a pond in the middle distance whose still waterreflects the trunks and foliage of a clump of green trees on its border.Beyond is a flat green field in sunshine, and in the distance are roundedhills. The sky is thickly bestrewn with light gray-white and brownishclouds. Signed at the lower left, N. Diaz. From the collection of Baron de la Rochette, Paris. Purchased front M. Knoedleb & Co., New York. KALEVIM

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