Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . bit of the French landscape,which happens to be at the octroi barrier of Issy, as asign post at the roadside proclaims. The road, a moistgray, runs straight away from the spectator, to van-ish over the crest of a low hill against a creamy-graysky that seems resistant to a pinkish flush. At eitherside of the way, on the gentle incline, are green fields,beyond gray walls or dilapidated fences, and on theright, in the foreground, are a gateway and a graywall, a pollarded tree, and the sign which announcesthat here one halts for the octroi formal
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . bit of the French landscape,which happens to be at the octroi barrier of Issy, as asign post at the roadside proclaims. The road, a moistgray, runs straight away from the spectator, to van-ish over the crest of a low hill against a creamy-graysky that seems resistant to a pinkish flush. At eitherside of the way, on the gentle incline, are green fields,beyond gray walls or dilapidated fences, and on theright, in the foreground, are a gateway and a graywall, a pollarded tree, and the sign which announcesthat here one halts for the octroi formalities. Wildflowers with warm yellow blossoms bloom by the road-side, and the atmosphere is of that delightfully mys-terious quality which leads the artists admirers to pre-liminary debate as to whether it is the sunlight of lateafternoon, or early moonlight, or a commingling ofboth—with a yale yellow orb gleaming at the disputantsin the languor of the hour. Signed at the lower left, J. C. Cazin. From the Julius Oehme Collection, New York, No. 68BAIN DE MER, TREPORT BY JEAN FRANCOIS RAFFAELLI Jean Francois Raffaelli French: 1850— r 68—BAIX DE MER, TREPORT (Panel)Height, 21 inches; length, 24 inches A misty day on the Channel, with little wind; fleecyclouds all but obscuring the blue of a summer sky; off-shore a sailing ship or two, moving lazily. In the shal-lows within the life-lines of the bathing grounds, bath-ers are dipping and frolicking, their colored suits add-ing brightness to the scene. Along the beach are morepeople, and boats and the bathing tents; high abovethem a great bluff of the foreground gives a stretch ofsober green from which to overlook the fair prospectbelow. Here under the tricolor less eager sojournersby the sea lean out and watch the bathers. Signed at the lower right, J. F. Raffaelli. From the Tadamasa Hayashi Collection, New York, 1913. On the back of the panel is the inscription: Bain de mer, Le Treport, M. Raffaelli (Jean Fr
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