. Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York. table, four men and a woman, seated on low, heavy woodenbenches. In front, her figure turned toward the left, and fac-ing the spectator, the young woman, who is clad in solidgreen with slashed sleeves, is looking up to a bearded man increamy-yellow and old rose who is slyly making love to herwhile liis bibulous companions are busy with their pipes andglasses. One pulls heartily on his pipe, another is lighting hispipe from a brazier on
. Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York. table, four men and a woman, seated on low, heavy woodenbenches. In front, her figure turned toward the left, and fac-ing the spectator, the young woman, who is clad in solidgreen with slashed sleeves, is looking up to a bearded man increamy-yellow and old rose who is slyly making love to herwhile liis bibulous companions are busy with their pipes andglasses. One pulls heartily on his pipe, another is lighting hispipe from a brazier on the table, and the third, on the left, holdsaloft his wineglass in one hand, in the other clutching thecapacious pitcher. Broken pipes and stems lie on the tableand floor. From the collection of the late John La Farge, Of this canvas Dr. W. R. Valentiner wrote, May (J, 1911: Die histigeGesellschaft (The Jovial Company), from the collection of Mr. John La Farge,is a very remarkal)le painting by Cornelius van Haarlem, which ])roves that theartist, in his later days, came under the influence of the society painters ofHaarlem of the time of Frans
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