. 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. AJ /? yaX,^^-^^: v^ /J. / L. No. 47 ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO GUARDI Itai,ian : 1712—1793 ^ Oil LANDSCAPE Height, 22 inches; length, 38Vi; inches Under a brillicint blue sky in which float white and smoky-gray clond-patches, a nionntainons chissical hmdscape liesgray-green and greenish-bliie in the distance, dotted with talland spreading architectural ])iles, dotted with white sails uponblue rivers, and varied by wooded and sunht valleys
. 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. AJ /? yaX,^^-^^: v^ /J. / L. No. 47 ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO GUARDI Itai,ian : 1712—1793 ^ Oil LANDSCAPE Height, 22 inches; length, 38Vi; inches Under a brillicint blue sky in which float white and smoky-gray clond-patches, a nionntainons chissical hmdscape liesgray-green and greenish-bliie in the distance, dotted with talland spreading architectural ])iles, dotted with white sails uponblue rivers, and varied by wooded and sunht valleys and broadplains. In the foreground, green and yellowish-brown vege-tation flourishes on uneven strips of land projecting irregu-larly into a stream that turns the wheel of an old mill, intowhich a man is bearing on his back a sack of grain. Here,too, the land and its buildings are mottled by sunshine anashadow, but all in warm tones of yellow, l)rown and green,with suggestions of rose-tint and weathered gray. A grayroad passes before a picturesque and colorful group of build-ing-ruins, and numerous figures in blue, white, bro\Mi andlavender-touched garments are seen in roadway an
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