Illustrated catalogue of paintings, pastels and water colors collected by the late David CLyall of Brooklyn . PRISE DUNE BATTER1E BY PAUL ALEXANDRE PROTAIS P. A. PROTAIS U—PRISE DUNE BATTERIE * Q^ !l This is a battle scene, presumably an episodeof the Crimean War, with a multitude of smallfigures. The first line of a strong force of Zou-aves has just charged a field battery, and a cap-tured gun, surrounded by the enemys slain andthe scattered dead and wounded of the victors,shows that the fight for the piece has been a stub-born one. To the right, and sweeping away ina curve to the smoky dista
Illustrated catalogue of paintings, pastels and water colors collected by the late David CLyall of Brooklyn . PRISE DUNE BATTER1E BY PAUL ALEXANDRE PROTAIS P. A. PROTAIS U—PRISE DUNE BATTERIE * Q^ !l This is a battle scene, presumably an episodeof the Crimean War, with a multitude of smallfigures. The first line of a strong force of Zou-aves has just charged a field battery, and a cap-tured gun, surrounded by the enemys slain andthe scattered dead and wounded of the victors,shows that the fight for the piece has been a stub-born one. To the right, and sweeping away ina curve to the smoky distance, a second line ofmen is rushing on to the support of the advance,which is still engaged with the enemy. Throughthe thin veil of drifting smoke are dimly seen dis-tant fields and troops in regular formation. Signed at the left, P. Alex. Protais. Height, 25y2 inches; length, 39^ inches. Painted for Mr. LA FIN DU TRAVAIL BY JULES ADOLPHE BRETON JULES ADOLPHE BRETON 95—LA FIN DU TRAVAIL ^.-q 0 The season of late summer, when the earth iscarpeted with lush vegetation and when, at sun-set, a delicate warm glow bathes the whole land-scape, has often impressed this artist, who withbrush, and also with pen in verse, has renderedthe charm of the hour and the idyllic side of peas-ant life. The incidents in this picture are in theirfavorite setting. On a wide area of cultivatedfields, over which steals the first twilight shadow,a number of peasant women are finishing theirdays task. A warm glow of reflected light fromthe sun below the horizon embraces the wholelandscape, softens the sharp crescent of the newmoon, and the brilliancy of the light of the even-ing star. Near the middle of the picture, towardthe left, and seen partly against the sky andpartly against the wide extent of the field, twowomen are filling a sack with green fodder and,beside them, a little girl with jug and sickle iss
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