. Illustrated catalogue of the valuable paintings and other art property recently contained in the William Schaus Art Galleries, Fifth Avenue, New York . FELIX ZIEM FRENCH (1821-1911) No. 227- INUNDATION, PLACE ST. MARC Jfiii/hf. 5iyz inches; width, 38% inches. The foreground presents a sheet of richly colored water. It is bounded at theright by the three flagstaffs, with red and yellow gonfalons, and at the leftby the portal of St. Marks. Gondolas are moored in front of it. The waterextends to the column of St. Mark, beyond which appears, lit with rosyglow, the Campanile of San Giorgio Maggio
. Illustrated catalogue of the valuable paintings and other art property recently contained in the William Schaus Art Galleries, Fifth Avenue, New York . FELIX ZIEM FRENCH (1821-1911) No. 227- INUNDATION, PLACE ST. MARC Jfiii/hf. 5iyz inches; width, 38% inches. The foreground presents a sheet of richly colored water. It is bounded at theright by the three flagstaffs, with red and yellow gonfalons, and at the leftby the portal of St. Marks. Gondolas are moored in front of it. The waterextends to the column of St. Mark, beyond which appears, lit with rosyglow, the Campanile of San Giorgio Maggiore. Purchased by the late owner from E. Croxier, Paris, previous to his public sale, at the lower left, No. 228- FRITZ VON LENBACH GERMAN (1836-1904)PORTRAIT OF BISMARK Height, 51 inches; width. 39% inches. The Iron Chancellor is shown three-quarters length, about full-front, thehead inclined three-quarters to the left. The top of the head is bald: the hairover the cars being, like the moustache, gray-blond. The left hand holds thehilt of the sword, while the right rests on a green-covered table. The figure isencased in a double-breasted black frock coat, with yellow collar and epauletsof twisted gold thread, while a narrow yellow stripe surrounds the cuffs. TheIron Cross is fastened over the left breast. Signed above the lower left, F. Lenbach. C. AYER WHIPPLE AMERICAN No. 229—PORTRAIT OF JOHN HAY, THE LATE SECRETARY OF STATE Height, 52 inches; width, 40 inches. The Secretary, in characteristic, alert and affable, though serious, expression,is shown at three-quarter length, seated erect in a high-backed a:*mchair up-holstered in reddish-brown leather, his face and gaze turned slightl
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