Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . f t^ Gaston la Tonche French: Contemporary 54—PETIT SOU PER (Panel)Height, 15% inches; width, 13% inches The evening of a brilliant entertainment in a greathouse is depicted, the elaborately decorated walls andceiling of a French mansion being brought out in therich color and surfaces characteristic of the prismatic lights of crystal chandeliers aloft, thesoft light of sconces and table lamps below, but par-tially illumine a large company of men and womengathered for refreshments at numerous tables. Signed at the lower right, Gasto
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . f t^ Gaston la Tonche French: Contemporary 54—PETIT SOU PER (Panel)Height, 15% inches; width, 13% inches The evening of a brilliant entertainment in a greathouse is depicted, the elaborately decorated walls andceiling of a French mansion being brought out in therich color and surfaces characteristic of the prismatic lights of crystal chandeliers aloft, thesoft light of sconces and table lamps below, but par-tially illumine a large company of men and womengathered for refreshments at numerous tables. Signed at the lower right, Gaston la Touche. Purchased at the Jubilee Exhibition, Mannheim, Firmin-Auguste Renoir French: 1841— L\ ^ ) ™ 55—BAIGNEUSE Height, 16 inches; width, 12% inches A plump young woman with rosy cheeks and lips andTitian hair, is seated, nude, on white and scarlet drap-eries in a sequestered retreat in a wood, or the shadycorner of a garden, engaged at her bath. Her warmhair falls loosely down her back, which is in the coolshadow of the feathery foliage about her. She is seatedback to the observer and turned toward the left, at themoment bathing her left arm, and her face is in profile. Signed at the to-cer right, from Julius Oehme. New York, 1907.
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