Programme . WAREROOMS, 395 Boylston St. 349 he at once painted, and this was for the Countess Marie von Oriola,of Biidesheim. It is said that he painted it according to the wish ofthe Countess, who visited him at Florence, and that when he showedit to her he said: You received, as you wished, a dream picture. Itmust produce such an effect of stillness that any one would be fright-ened to hear a knock on the door. According to Fritz von Ostini, athird variant of the first sketch was made in 1883, a fourth in 1884, afifth, which is in the Leipsic Museum, in 1886, and still a sixth, almosta repli
Programme . WAREROOMS, 395 Boylston St. 349 he at once painted, and this was for the Countess Marie von Oriola,of Biidesheim. It is said that he painted it according to the wish ofthe Countess, who visited him at Florence, and that when he showedit to her he said: You received, as you wished, a dream picture. Itmust produce such an effect of stillness that any one would be fright-ened to hear a knock on the door. According to Fritz von Ostini, athird variant of the first sketch was made in 1883, a fourth in 1884, afifth, which is in the Leipsic Museum, in 1886, and still a sixth, almosta replica of one of the former ones, was sold in Munich. The secondvariant is owned by the Schon family in Worms. There are differencesin detail and in color in the five variants. The island in the picture was suggested by the group of PonzaIslands, north of the Gulf of Naples. Their form and rocks show thatthey are of volcanic origin, and in prehistoric times were probably ofthe Vesuvian craters. Some of the islan
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