Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 66CHERBOURG BY LOUIS EUGENE BOUDIN V JO Louis Eugene Bouclin French: 1824—1898 66—CHERBOURG Height, 16i/2 inches; length, 22 inches The Cherbourg roadstead appears in the picturesqueeffect of the busy days of sailing ships, with squareriggers so thick that their masts and spars seem almosta tangle in the perspective, and fore-and-afters withsails up adding to the lively nautical composition. Thebackground of tall hills is green with summer foliage,at their foot thickly clustered buildings showing at theleft with red, green and brown tiled
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 66CHERBOURG BY LOUIS EUGENE BOUDIN V JO Louis Eugene Bouclin French: 1824—1898 66—CHERBOURG Height, 16i/2 inches; length, 22 inches The Cherbourg roadstead appears in the picturesqueeffect of the busy days of sailing ships, with squareriggers so thick that their masts and spars seem almosta tangle in the perspective, and fore-and-afters withsails up adding to the lively nautical composition. Thebackground of tall hills is green with summer foliage,at their foot thickly clustered buildings showing at theleft with red, green and brown tiled roofs of manyshapes. The water reflects the hues of shore and ofcumulus clouds that roll majestically across the sky. Signed at the right, E. Boudix, 83, Cherbourg. From the Frederic Bonner Collection, Xew York, No. 67OCTROI DISSY BY JEAN CHARLES CAZIN Jean Charles Cazin Fhexch: 1840—1901 % $04 67—OCTROI DISSY Height, 18% inches; length, 24 inches An engaging, inviting 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—wi
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