Catalogue of the collections of the American Art Association to be absolutely sold by auction to settle the estate of the late RAustin Robertson; part first . A party of Prussian hussars, in the foreground,have l teen sur-prised at a bridge crossing- a millet, by a company of Frenchinfantry who have been ambushed at the right, in a grove upona hillside which commands the road. Under the withering fireof the French, the Prussians have fallen in confusion. A few re-turn the attack with discharges of their carbines. Others flypanic-stricken. The wounded and the dead roll upon the is mid
Catalogue of the collections of the American Art Association to be absolutely sold by auction to settle the estate of the late RAustin Robertson; part first . A party of Prussian hussars, in the foreground,have l teen sur-prised at a bridge crossing- a millet, by a company of Frenchinfantry who have been ambushed at the right, in a grove upona hillside which commands the road. Under the withering fireof the French, the Prussians have fallen in confusion. A few re-turn the attack with discharges of their carbines. Others flypanic-stricken. The wounded and the dead roll upon the is midwinter, and in the frosty air the smoke of the skirmishhangs in gray wreaths, while the blood of the fallen soldiersmakes crimson stains upon the snowy ground. Signed at the left, 1880. Canvas. Height, 47 ins.: width, r>3 ins. Collection of M. Fob Smith, Rotterdam. Engraved for EnCampanile. Illustrated by de Neuville. J^Y 92 OIT, PAINTINGS 1 53 LE PARC AIT BCEUES N. V. A scene in the forest of Fontainebleau, near JBarbizon. At theright, in the foregTOund, is a group of young oak trees. At theleft, somewhat more remote, is a smaller tree of the same the middleground, the line of the forest makes a barrieragainst the sky, whose summer azure is relieved with light fence, with a gate and a post supporting a signboard, dividesthe foreground portion of the picture from the foreground of rich turf, varied with patches of young under-growth, shows, in a cup-like hollow, a pool of water which reflectsthe sky. This picture appears to have been almost entirely paintedfrom nature on the spot. Diaz was spending the summer atBarbizon at the time, and coming upon this spot by accident, itsmodest beaut\- so fascinated him, that he commenced to make astudy of it and ended by achieving a masterpiece. The picturepassed into the hands of Baron de Haupf, from whom, in 1879, itwas acquired by M. Boucheron. It was the chief Diaz at t
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