Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . es arethe result of a healthy rendering of life. And in the present one a little episode of theclassical period is reinvested with all the charm of naturalness. A young Roman lady isreceiving a gift of roses from a youthful lover. They are seated on a marble exedra atthe head of a flight of steps flanked by a parapet, and leading down to the sea, whichshows in the distance in a strip of sapphire blue, kissed by shell-hued clouds. The lady,swathed to the feet in a drapery of the color of cafi-au-lait,
Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . es arethe result of a healthy rendering of life. And in the present one a little episode of theclassical period is reinvested with all the charm of naturalness. A young Roman lady isreceiving a gift of roses from a youthful lover. They are seated on a marble exedra atthe head of a flight of steps flanked by a parapet, and leading down to the sea, whichshows in the distance in a strip of sapphire blue, kissed by shell-hued clouds. The lady,swathed to the feet in a drapery of the color of cafi-au-lait, with ribbons of ashes of roseson her shoulders and wrists, reclines with her weight upon her right hand, and holds thepink roses before her. Her companion, whose costume is a woollen cloak of yellowishbrown, worn over a short tunic that shows his feet bound round with leather thongs, leansforward on the seat, resting on his arm. The little scene is a veritable fragment from theantique life. Signed at the right of centre, L. Alma-Tadema, Op. CCXXXIV. Height, 7 inches ; length, 15 ^ MRS. ALMA-TADEMA 46— In Good Hands A little girl, seated in a dark oak high-backed chair, turns from her needleworkto look at a sick boy asleep in an antique bed, which has massive pillars of carved red and blue paper whirligig rests on the sheet, and on the floor a large clasp volumeis propped against the bed. The older child wears over her blonde curls a white cap tiedunder the chin with little tasselled cords, a collar of flounced lace, a pale blue skirtwith gray spots, and a white scalloped apron over a brown petticoat. On the buff wallbehind her hangs a brass candlestick and, beneath a wooden shelf, the lace front of apeasants cap. The tiled wainscot on the left shows a glimmer of blue. Height, 15 inches; width, 11 inches. KARL BODMER 1805-1889 47— A Pool in the Forest As evening settles over the forest a stag is drinking. The water is bordered bysilver birch, beyond which ar
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