Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . gly marked features, is portrayed at fulllength, engaged in a lone rehearsal. He is seated in ahigh and heavy, leather-covered, winged armchair, fac-ing toward the left and seen two-thirds front. Withleft hand on the arm of the chair, and seated well backin it, he extends his right hand at arms length, thefingers spread and inclined downward, whither hissteady gaze is directed, as though he were addressinga company below him in declaratory speech. A stronglight falls upon him. He wears red tights and a sleeve-less gray jacket, revealing the s
Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . gly marked features, is portrayed at fulllength, engaged in a lone rehearsal. He is seated in ahigh and heavy, leather-covered, winged armchair, fac-ing toward the left and seen two-thirds front. Withleft hand on the arm of the chair, and seated well backin it, he extends his right hand at arms length, thefingers spread and inclined downward, whither hissteady gaze is directed, as though he were addressinga company below him in declaratory speech. A stronglight falls upon him. He wears red tights and a sleeve-less gray jacket, revealing the shoulder-sleeves of hiswhite shirt, his sinewy arms being bare, and he is seenagainst a background of neutral tones, running from awarm mahogany-brown to deep green. Signed at the lower right, W. Leibl, 1867. Reproduced in Wilhelm Leibl; eine Darstellung seiner KunstGesamptverzeichnis seiner Gemalde, von Emil Waldmann. Purchased from Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, 1906. The canvas was a study for a composition, Don Quixote, denBalsam des Fierabras ?V No. 135GIRL READING BY FRITZ K. H. VOX UHDE vv Fritz Karl Hermann von Untie German: 1848—1911135—GIRL READING Height, 23% inches; width, 19*4 inches A plump and fair little German maiden, with untrainedyellowish-blond hair falling over her forehead and earsand stopping short at the back of her neck, is seated ina high-back chair reading in a large book. She facesthe right, three-quarters front, and is in the full, softsunlight, which enters the room through a large win-dow in the background. She wears a dark frock andwhite lace-edged overdress, and one refractory stockingexposes a pink knee. The background includes a gray-blue wall and soft red portiere and a creamy wall be-yond the sun-bright window. Signed at the lower left, F. from the late Herman Schaus, New York, 1905.
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