. Illustrated catalogue of the valuable paintings and other art property recently contained in the William Schaus Art Galleries, Fifth Avenue, New York . FREDERICK AUGUST VON KAULBACH No. 213- GERMAX (1850- ) DAY DREAMS Height, 39% Inches; width, 29% inches 1 A garden bench, painted red, disposed across the foreground. At the rightend of it a lady sits with her left leg crossed over the knee of the other, seenin profile, while her body and face are turned to the front, the gray eyes beingfixed on the spectator. Her right arm extends along the top of the bench,the hand holding a book, while
. Illustrated catalogue of the valuable paintings and other art property recently contained in the William Schaus Art Galleries, Fifth Avenue, New York . FREDERICK AUGUST VON KAULBACH No. 213- GERMAX (1850- ) DAY DREAMS Height, 39% Inches; width, 29% inches 1 A garden bench, painted red, disposed across the foreground. At the rightend of it a lady sits with her left leg crossed over the knee of the other, seenin profile, while her body and face are turned to the front, the gray eyes beingfixed on the spectator. Her right arm extends along the top of the bench,the hand holding a book, while the other hand lies upon her lap. Her darkhair is decked with a tortoise-shell comb, the head being silhouetted against amass of pale gray-green foliage. She wears a white dress of soft materialthat reflects tones of cream, lavender-pink and very pale red-plum. Blackvelvet bands encircle the shoulders and cross the bosom, and a sash of dark graysilk confines the waist. A bush of pink and white camelias grows at the leftof the foreground. Signed on the top of the bench, F. A. No. 214 WERNER SCHUCH GERMAN (1843- ) THE BATTLE OF LEIPZIG Height, 34 inches; length, 43y2 inches The picture commemorates the victory of the Prussians and their Russian,Austrian and Swedish allies over Napoleon, October 16-19, 1813. GeneralSchwarzenberg is shown, surrounded by his staff. The group occupies a sum-mit at the right, overlooking the battle which is proceeding down below in thedistance at the left. An aide-de-camp, dressed in a gray frock coat with redcollar and gray, tightly buttoned breeches, is reporting something to theGeneral, who wears an olive-green coat and cocked hat with a white the two is a third figure, wearing a pale blue coat with high red collarand a green feather in his gold-trimmed hat. At the immediate right of theforeground two officers, one of them notably stout, are on foot, studying a map. Signed at the lower right, Werner Schuch.
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