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Title: Catalogue of the Ehrich Galleries collection of valuable paintings : by the masters of the classic Italian, Dutch, Flemish, English, Spanish, and French schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Ehrich Galleries
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
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FRANCESCO ALBANI
Italian School
1578-1666
Albani (or Albano) belongs to the Bolognese Italian School,
and was a fellow-pupil with Guido Reni at the art studio of Lodo-
vico Caracci. On leaving the school, both artists went to Rome,
where Albano soon gained great reputation. He spent his life
in Italy, — dying in Bologna at the age of eighty-eight. A writer
says of him: His compositions are ingenious and attractive, his
figures are both elegant and graceful. The landscapes in the
background of his pictures are exceedingly pleasing, touched with
exquisite taste, and his fresh and delicate coloring charms the
beholder.

BACCHUS AND ARIADNE
The youthful Bacchus accompanied by Pan, Cupid, Satyrs
and Bacchantes has just stepped from his chariot drawn by leop-
ards. Bacchus is a stately youth in a glorious deep-red drapery
holding a staff wound with grapevines which he rests on the back
of Ariadnes throne. Ariadne with bare knee and right breast
turns to him and waves him to a seat beside her on the throne,
which has a curtain for a canopy. Cupid, a beautiful figure,
stands between. To the left a semi-circle of worshipping satyrs.
To the left rear the cliffs and sea of Naxos.
Splendid red and blue notes in draperies; faces full of senti-
ment; graceful, polite gestures.

On canvas; height, 29¹/₅ inches; width, 39¹/₅ inches.

THOMAS GREGORY.
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SIR HENRY RAEBURN

1756 — 1823.

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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER
English School
1775-1851

Turner, the son of a barber, born in London, has been called
the greatest imaginative landscape-painter that ever lived. By
the time he was fourteen he had begun to paint in oils, and was
admitted as a student at the Academy. For over sixty years
thereafter he continued to paint, working with incredible industry,
and finishing a vast number of paintings. In Turners first period,
to which this example belongs, which lasted until about 1820, his
paintings show the closest attention to the most minute details of
nature. The keynotes are grayish green and brown; pure blues
and delicate golden yellows being admitted in small quantity as the
lowest and highest limits of shade and light; and bright local col-
ors in extremely small quantity in figures or other minor accesso-
ries. Everything that came from Turner's hand is precious, and
discerning collectors are eager to secure an example of his work.

THE TOWER OF LONDON

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