High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools . llection IN THE GALLERIES OF M. KNOEDLER & CO. No. 556 Fifth Avenue BETWEEN 4oTH AND 46TH STREETS NEW YORK CATALOGUE SALE THURSDAY EVENINGFEBRUARY 20, 1913 IN THE (JRAND BALLROOM OF THE PLAZA BEGINNING AT OCLOCK No. 1THE YOUTHFUL MOTHER BY JOSEF ISRAELS jL^d1 No. 1JOSEF ISRAELS Dutch 1824—1911 THE YOUTHFUL MOTHER (Water Color)Height, ll1/! inches; width, 7% indies A fair-haired young Dutch girl in a dark skirt, light waist—hersleeves rolled up—and with a bluish-white kerchief about her head, isseated in a humble home
High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools . llection IN THE GALLERIES OF M. KNOEDLER & CO. No. 556 Fifth Avenue BETWEEN 4oTH AND 46TH STREETS NEW YORK CATALOGUE SALE THURSDAY EVENINGFEBRUARY 20, 1913 IN THE (JRAND BALLROOM OF THE PLAZA BEGINNING AT OCLOCK No. 1THE YOUTHFUL MOTHER BY JOSEF ISRAELS jL^d1 No. 1JOSEF ISRAELS Dutch 1824—1911 THE YOUTHFUL MOTHER (Water Color)Height, ll1/! inches; width, 7% indies A fair-haired young Dutch girl in a dark skirt, light waist—hersleeves rolled up—and with a bluish-white kerchief about her head, isseated in a humble home doing some knitting beside a homely faces the spectator, her figure turned slightly toward the right,and looks down attentively at her work with the light falling brightlyon her from above and the left. On a table near her a flowering plantis growing in a pot, and behind her is seen in tones of mottled browna door with a square lintel. Signed at the lower left, Josef Israels. From tJie collection of Sir J. C. Day, London, 1909: Catalogue No. Xo. 2MORNING OX THE ESCAUT BY PAUL JEAX CLAYS No. 2PAUL JEAN CLAYS Flemish 1819—1900 MORNING ON THE ESCAUT (Panel)Height, 9]/4 inches; length, 121/; inches fri In the fresh morning light a large number of characteristic sailingcraft of the Old World are strung for a considerable distance alongthe river, yet appear as in a group, with their tall masts and variedsails rising boldly against a light sky. Its thin clouds of fleecy whiteare tinged with a faint pink flush. A square-rigger is near the centerof the picture, the other craft being single-masters, and their canvasranges from gray-white to a creamy yellow and a buff-pink. Thegently moving water of the river is mottled with reflections of theclouds, the sails, and the dark, brown hulls, and in the distance smokerises from a steamers funnel, close in by the shore. In the fore-ground men are rowing a heavy small-boat. The picture is full ofcolor and atmosphere. Si
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