. 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. mes into view the cool greenarm of a lake, or bend of a narrow river, in the transparentshadow cast by a neighboring hill as the sun sinks to left of hillside sustains groves of bushy trees, and on the hitherside of the water, at the left, the foreground is low and coveredwith green vegetation to the waters edge. Standing in thestream are two cows, and from a road down to the water onthe right a bare-footed farmer in brown coat


. 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. mes into view the cool greenarm of a lake, or bend of a narrow river, in the transparentshadow cast by a neighboring hill as the sun sinks to left of hillside sustains groves of bushy trees, and on the hitherside of the water, at the left, the foreground is low and coveredwith green vegetation to the waters edge. Standing in thestream are two cows, and from a road down to the water onthe right a bare-footed farmer in brown coat and blue breeches,and leaning on a staff, who has set down his basket behindhim, appears to be about to enter the water after the cows—orto ford a narrow outlet into which his dog has already dog and farmer and the edge of the stream, and on highergreen and yellow fields at the right, the sunshine falls fromover the hilltop, bathing a low, thatched stable or cottage inthe middle distance toward the right. The distance is a coun-try of rolling hills and mountains, wooded—a bluish-greenunder a j)ale blue sky enlivened by moving white


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