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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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i. inches; Length, 26 inches. The wall of the stable interior is a silvery bluish-drab, illuminated from theupper left by a streak of light, which falls across a portion of the plaster onwhich a lantern hangs. In the center of the floor stand two ewes and twowell-grown lambs, all facing to the front, where a dark brown hen is scratch-ing in the straw. To the left of this group are two other hens, beside asheep that is lying down. Over on the right, a lamb is reaching up to arack, stuffed with yellow fodder. Meanwhile, in the center of the middledistance, through an opening into an inner stable, the back of the shepherd,clad in a blue blouse, shows against the golden-brown obscurity. Signed at the lower right, Ch. Jacque.
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VILLAGE STREET, MOONLIGHTFRITZ THAULOW CATALOGUE No. 33 No. 33FRITZ THAULOW NORWEGIAN(1847-1906) VILLAGE STREET, MOONLIGHT Height, \§Y\ inches; Length, 25)4 inches. At the end of the village street, dark, shaggy masses of foliage showagainst a deep blue sky, pierced with several stars and lighted by a moon,invisible on the left. Two figures are vaguely distinguishable, passingbeside a cottage with high-pitched roof, from a window in which gleamsan orange-yellow light. This is on the right of the street, and is succeedednearer to the front by a cottage with red-tiled roof, in front of which standsa cart, painted blue. Next to it is a house, whose steep roof of thatch issurmounted by a coping of tiles. A gateway, with brick piers, and theangle of a reddish roof, close in the right of the foreground. On the leftof the roadway lie the scattered shadows of trees that are outside the scene. Signed at the lower right, Fritz Thaulow.

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