. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the modern paintings forming the private collection of the late John H. Converse of Philadelphia . 2 _J No. 52LEON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE FRENCH(1844- ) THE GLEANERS Height, 20% inches; Length, S0% inches. From high up on the left a stretch of stubble field descends steeply to theforeground. Here is a group of three girls gleaning. The nearest of them,clad in a striped green and blue bodice and a brownish-red skirt, with herwhite apron caught up as a bag, is stooping to the ground. Behind her, justabout to stoop, stands another girl at whose left is the third in
. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the modern paintings forming the private collection of the late John H. Converse of Philadelphia . 2 _J No. 52LEON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE FRENCH(1844- ) THE GLEANERS Height, 20% inches; Length, S0% inches. From high up on the left a stretch of stubble field descends steeply to theforeground. Here is a group of three girls gleaning. The nearest of them,clad in a striped green and blue bodice and a brownish-red skirt, with herwhite apron caught up as a bag, is stooping to the ground. Behind her, justabout to stoop, stands another girl at whose left is the third in uprightposition arranging in a sheaf the ears which she has gleaned. Farther backa solitary figure, conspicuous by a red cap, is in the act of stooping. At thetop of the slope, which is tufted with a few dark bushes, one sees a harvestwagon. In the distance a hill, shaded to a rosy peacock-blue tone, extendsacross the horizon. Over the center of the latter the twilight sky glows,cream and yellow, beneath a curtain of slaty-purple, which toward the sidespales to a dove gray. Signed and dated at the lower right, L. Lhermitte, %. x m• <*}\ * * «? J* £ * *» ^ i ^ •* I No. 53ARTHUR HOEBER AMERICANContemporary MEADOWS WITH CATTLE Height, 28}i inches; Length, 36 inches. A level expanse of meadow-land, covered with coarse tussets of grass thatshow intervals of sandy soil, stretches to the horizon, where toward the righta wood is faintly visible. In the foreground lies a little reedy pool, whichreflects soft tones of rose, blue and cream from the evening sky. A blackand white cow is approaching from the left to drink. Its body is seenbetween two fragments of a railed fence. In the rear two other cows arecoming forward. Signed at the lower left, Arthur Hokber No. 54CHARLES BRUN FRENCH (about 1840-1909) THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS Height, 39^ inches; Width, 25 inches. A Turkish idyl is being enacted in a narrow street. While a maid servant,hooded and cloaked in grayish-blue, kn
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