. Illustrated catalogue of the very valuable art property belonging to the estate of the well-known connoisseur, the late James a. Garland, Esq. a former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [electronic resource]. No. ISVILE DES AMOURS BY \. V. DIAZ / m No. 18 NARGISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PENA FRENCH1807-1896 LlLE DES AMOURS Deep in a bosky glade a number of beautiful nymphsrecline in various attitudes upon the velvet turf. With theirclothing draped loosely about their lower limbs, their shapelyarms and soft bosoms shining in the sunlight, they sport witha crowd of little cupids who Hit th
. Illustrated catalogue of the very valuable art property belonging to the estate of the well-known connoisseur, the late James a. Garland, Esq. a former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [electronic resource]. No. ISVILE DES AMOURS BY \. V. DIAZ / m No. 18 NARGISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PENA FRENCH1807-1896 LlLE DES AMOURS Deep in a bosky glade a number of beautiful nymphsrecline in various attitudes upon the velvet turf. With theirclothing draped loosely about their lower limbs, their shapelyarms and soft bosoms shining in the sunlight, they sport witha crowd of little cupids who Hit through the air or run merryraces upon the flower-bejeweled grass. In the distance is theglint of water as a river flows gently by, and beyond the eyeranges over a verdant landscape to a mountain, blue uponthe horizon. Through the trees shines the azure sky, inwhose depths float masses of billowy cloud. Sighed on the lower left, N. Diaz, 57 Height, L6# inches; length, 24 inchesMks. Mary J. MORGAN Collection. New York, 1886. No. 19AUTUMN MORNING BY .IlLES DUPHE No. 19 JULES DUPRE FRENCH1812-1889 AUTUMN MORNING By the margin of a silvery stream a man is mooring hisboat in the shade afforded by a clump of trees. From the low-lying bank a roadway leads across a green field to a couple ofhumble cottages in the middle distance. Beyond, the groundrises into a graceful, rounded hillside, which stretches acrossthe picture. Overhead the sky is a serene blue, with a heavybank of rolling cloud near the horizon, from behind which asun ray darts down, silvers the trunk of a tree in the fore-ground, and falling just behind the cottages, affords a brilliantnote of light among the prevailing low tones of the blue of the sky is reflected in the mirror-Iikc surface ofthe river, save where the dark green of the trees plunges thewater into semiobscurity. Signed on the lower right. Jules Dvpni J/eight, 2\% inches; length, 25 % inches Collection OS M. Kmikhler & Co.
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