Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . ^ inches; length, 13^ ALEXANDRE DECAMPS 1803-1860 44— The Beggar No subject came amiss to Decamps, whose eye discerned everywhere the elementsof picturesqueness. Here it is a beggar, with his back to us, holding out his hat and lookingup, as if to a window. The freedom of the gesture is charming, and the whole conceptioneminently a painters view. The man wears a jacket of olive-drab hue; greenish-bluebreeches, leaving the legs bare; and a pouch slung under his right arm. The coloring ismello
Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry GMarquand . ^ inches; length, 13^ ALEXANDRE DECAMPS 1803-1860 44— The Beggar No subject came amiss to Decamps, whose eye discerned everywhere the elementsof picturesqueness. Here it is a beggar, with his back to us, holding out his hat and lookingup, as if to a window. The freedom of the gesture is charming, and the whole conceptioneminently a painters view. The man wears a jacket of olive-drab hue; greenish-bluebreeches, leaving the legs bare; and a pouch slung under his right arm. The coloring ismellow and subtle, brushed in with delightful spontaneity. Signed at the lower right, AD. Height, 91^ inches ; width, 6 inches. SIR LAURENCE ALMA-TADEMA, RA. 45— Amo te, ama me It has been well said that in their still life Alma-Tademas pictures are the fruitof enormous archaeological learning which has become intuitive vision, but his figures arethe result of a healthy rendering of life. And in the present one a little episode of theclassical period is reinvested with all the charm of naturalness. A young Roman lady isr
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