Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . p Adolf von Menzel German: 1815—1905112—MAN READING (Gouache)Height, 11 inches; width, 8/2 inches Half-length portrait of a man of middle age, lean-ing over a table, reading. He faces the left and isseen a little more than in profile, his arms resting onthe table and holding up a long white book. His longbowed gold spectacles lie beside him, light striking themand his ruddy face. He wears a brown coat with broadlapels and a white stock. Signed at the loxcer right, AM (in monogram), from Mestrs. Hermes $ Frankfort, 1907. Acro
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . p Adolf von Menzel German: 1815—1905112—MAN READING (Gouache)Height, 11 inches; width, 8/2 inches Half-length portrait of a man of middle age, lean-ing over a table, reading. He faces the left and isseen a little more than in profile, his arms resting onthe table and holding up a long white book. His longbowed gold spectacles lie beside him, light striking themand his ruddy face. He wears a brown coat with broadlapels and a white stock. Signed at the loxcer right, AM (in monogram), from Mestrs. Hermes $ Frankfort, 1907. Across the picture, in front of the head, is written Erinnerung—In 37) Paul Rene Keinicke German: 1860—113—CATHEDRAL IX SEEFELD (Water Color)Height, 14 inches; width, ll34 mcket At an elaborate wrought-iron screen protecting agilded altar, ablaze with color and light, which entersfrom a stained glass window on the right, are half adozen worshippers, standing, seated or kneeling. Theyare in the dress of humble folk: one woman carries abouquet. On the grayish-pink cathedral walls arenumerous sacred pictures. Sif/ned at bottom, to left of center, Rexe Reixicke,Mchex, 06. Purchased at Miinchener Kiinstler Oenossenschaft, Munich, 1907.
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