Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . Height, 18 inches; length, 21 inches Ancient houses line the bank of a stream, their massentering the picture at the left and receding until inthe distance the last building is overtopped by twogreen poplar trees. Gray and yellow walls and high-gabled brown roofs, mellowed by time and weather,give the note of charm to the prospect, and mottle thewater Avith their shadows. Ducks swim in the stream,and an old woman stoops to dip into it some cloths. Signed at the lower left, G. Schonleber, 1881. Purchased at the Orosse Berliner Kunstausstellung
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . Height, 18 inches; length, 21 inches Ancient houses line the bank of a stream, their massentering the picture at the left and receding until inthe distance the last building is overtopped by twogreen poplar trees. Gray and yellow walls and high-gabled brown roofs, mellowed by time and weather,give the note of charm to the prospect, and mottle thewater Avith their shadows. Ducks swim in the stream,and an old woman stoops to dip into it some cloths. Signed at the lower left, G. Schonleber, 1881. Purchased at the Orosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, Berlin, 1906. fl^ Prof. Max Klinger German : 1857—131—LANDSCAPE Height, 20% inches; width, 18% inches Trees on the farther slope of a hilly field project theirtops above the crest, and one tree rises out of the pic-ture. Below the field is a broad blue stream, withwhite-capped waves; iron-red and spotted rocks, ris-ing out of it in huge ledges, fill the foreground. Signed at the lower right, M. K. Purchased from Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, 5 (< Prof. Rudolf Schrainm-Zittau German: 1874—132—DUCKS (Panel)Height, 13% inches; length, 23ys inches Ducks are having a fine time hunting their food on landand in water, and their spots of color add engagingnotes to a homely, sunshiny country landscape. Or-chard trees beyond a rickety picket fence project theirbranches to the right across the fence and over a nar-row stream that runs along at its foot. Here theducks are just waddling in or swimming, and goldensunshine and cool shadows make the landscape live. Signed at the upper left, Rudolf at the German Art Exhibition, Xew York, 1907.
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Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: ., bookauthoramerican, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1916
