CATALOGUE

OF

VALUABLE PAINTINGS

AND

WATER COLORS

MOSTLY OF THE

MODERN DUTCH SCHOOL

FORMING THE

PRIVATE COLLECTION

OF

A. AUGUSTUS HEALY, ESQ.

BROOKLYN

TO BE DISPOSED OF AT UNRESTRICTED
PUBLIC SALE

ON FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15

AT MENDELSSOHN HALL

FORTIETH STREET, EAST OF BROADWAY

THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY
OF THE
AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Mgrs.
NEW YORK: 1907

Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York

CONDITIONS OF SALE

1. The highest Bidder to be the Buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold.

2. The Auctioneer reserves the right to reject any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance, and therefore, in his judgment, likely to affect the Sale injuriously.

3. The Purchasers to give their names and addresses, and to pay down a cash deposit, or the whole of the Purchase-money, if required, in default of which the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-sold.

4. The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer’s Expense and Risk within twenty-four hours from the conclusion of the Sale, and the remainder of the Purchase-money to be absolutely paid, or otherwise settled for to the satisfaction of the Auctioneer, on or before delivery; in default of which the undersigned will not hold themselves responsible if the lots be lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the Purchaser.

5. While the undersigned will not hold themselves responsible for the correctness of the description, genuineness, or authenticity of, or any fault or defect in, any Lot, and make no Warranty whatever, they will, upon receiving previous to date of Sale trustworthy expert opinion in writing that any Painting or other Work of Art is not what it is represented to be, use every effort on their part to furnish proof to the contrary; failing in which, the object or objects in question will be sold subject to the declaration of the aforesaid expert, he being liable to the Owner or Owners thereof, for damage or injury occasioned thereby.

6. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can, on any account, be removed during the Sale.

7. Upon failure to comply with the above conditions, the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited; all Lots uncleared within one day from conclusion of Sale shall be re-sold by public or private sale, without further notice, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulter at this Sale, together with all charges attending the same. This Condition is without prejudice to the right of the Auctioneer to enforce the contract made at this Sale, without such re-sale, if he thinks fit.

8. The undersigned are in no manner connected with the business of the cartage or packing and shipping of purchases, and although they will afford to purchasers every facility for employing careful carriers and packers, they will not hold themselves responsible for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such services.

The AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers.

THOMAS E. KIRBY, Auctioneer.

ARTISTS REPRESENTED AND
THEIR WORKS

CATALOGUE
NUMBERS

  • ARTZ, David Adolphe Constant,
  • A Fisherwoman, [20]
  • Along the River, [22]
  • BASTERT, Nicolaas,
  • Winter in Breukelen, Holland, [3]
  • Apple Blossoms, [25]
  • The White Sail, [69]
  • A River View in Holland, [84]
  • BELLONI, G.,
  • Incoming Sea, [24]
  • An Italian Garden, [92]
  • The Harbor at Genoa, [93]
  • BLAKELOCK, Ralph Albert,
  • Gypsy Encampment, [54]
  • BLOMMERS, Bernardus Johannes,
  • A Dutch Fisherman, [71]
  • BOSBOOM, Johannes,
  • Castle by the Sea, [4]
  • The Village Canal, [8]
  • BOUDIN, Louis Eugène,
  • Port de St. Valery, [58]
  • Unloading the Catch, [61]
  • Trouville, [65]
  • BROWN, John Lewis,
  • The Falconers, [30]
  • CAZIN, Jean Charles,
  • The Artist’s Studio--Boulogne, [31]
  • Le Dernier Quartier, [60]
  • COROT, Jean Baptiste Camille,
  • The Bather, [38]
  • DAUBIGNY, Charles François,
  • Banks of the Marne, [50]
  • A Showery Day in Spring, [57]
  • Springtime, [83]
  • De BOCK, Theophil H.,
  • The Pool in the Pasture, [45]
  • Near the Dunes, [64]
  • A Country Road, [68]
  • Autumn, [72]
  • Du CHATTEL, Fredericus Jacobus,
  • Canal in Holland, [19]
  • DUPRÉ, Jules,
  • The Edge of a Forest, [35]
  • FISHER, J. G.,
  • A Village Road, [26]
  • GABRIEL, Paul Joseph Constantine,
  • In the Cornfield, [89]
  • GÉRICAULT, Jean Louis André Théodore,
  • Stable Interior, [43]
  • HARPIGNIES, Henri,
  • French Landscape, [9]
  • A Distant Village, [33]
  • The Birches, [47]
  • A Summer Day, [49]
  • HASSAM, Childe,
  • Fifth Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street--Spring Morning, [56]
  • HERVIER, L.,
  • The Fishing Boat, [23]
  • HONRATH, Theodore,
  • Ploughing, [63]
  • INNESS, George, N.A.,
  • A Medfield Farm--Massachusetts, [39]
  • ISRAËLS, Josef,
  • A Pensive Sewer, [11]
  • Old Age, [13]
  • Waiting for His Master, [52]
  • A Dutch Interior, [75]
  • An Old Man Walking, [79]
  • JACQUE, Charles Émile,
  • Watering the Horses, [37]
  • KEVER, Jacob Simon Hendrik,
  • In the Orchard, [62]
  • The Little Nursemaid, [67]
  • Amusing the Baby, [70]
  • Playmates, [78]
  • KNAUS, Ludwig,
  • A Happy Fräulein, [42]
  • LA FARGE, John, N.A.,
  • Autumn, [21]
  • MARIS, Jacob,
  • View of Dordrecht, [18]
  • Scheveningen, [32]
  • Holland Landscape, [34]
  • MARIS, Willem,
  • Cows in Pasture, [15]
  • Under the Willows, [86]
  • MAUVE, Anton,
  • The Peasant’s Home, [10]
  • Cow in Sunlight, [28]
  • Cows in Pasture, [29]
  • McCORD, George Herbert, A.N.A.,
  • Evening in the Harbor, [90]
  • MESDAG, Hendrik Willem,
  • Early Morning, [66]
  • The Fishing Fleet, [88]
  • MILESI, A.,
  • A Market Scene in Venice, [94]
  • MURPHY, J. Francis, N.A.,
  • Sunset after the Storm, [48]
  • A Hillside Pasture, [55]
  • NAKKEN, Willem Carel,
  • Building the Rick, [76]
  • NEUHUYS, Albert,
  • Among the Flowers, [16]
  • Sunlight, [80]
  • OFFERMANS, Tony,
  • The Cobbler, [2]
  • POGGENBEEK, George,
  • Early Evening, [1]
  • Holland Meadow--Spring, [12]
  • Dutch Meadows, [46]
  • ROELOFS, Willem,
  • Summer in Holland, [51]
  • A Farm in Holland, [74]
  • Pasture near the Dunes, [87]
  • ROOSENBOOM, Mrs. Margaretha Vogel,
  • Peonies, [5]
  • Peonies, [6]
  • ROUSSEAU, Théodore,
  • The Plain of Barbizon at Twilight, [53]
  • SARTORI, G.,
  • A Canal in Venice, [91]
  • STEEN, Jan Havicksz,
  • The Merry Couple, [44]
  • TER MEULEN, François Pieter,
  • A Shepherd and His Flock--Winter, [81]
  • TROYON, Constant,
  • The Old Farmhouse, [36]
  • The Ferry, [82]
  • VOLLON, Anton,
  • Still Life, [59]
  • VROLYK, Johannes Martinus,
  • A Pasture in Holland, [7]
  • Landscape and Cattle, [77]
  • WATELIN, E.,
  • Cows in Pasture, [73]
  • WEISSENBRUCH, Johannes Hendrik,
  • A Heath in Holland, [14]
  • A Summer Day in Holland, [17]
  • A Dutch Pasture, [41]
  • WIJSMULLER, J. H.,
  • The Street Market, [27]
  • The Lock in Winter, [85]
  • WYANT, Alexander H., N.A.,
  • The Mountain Road, [40]

CATALOGUE

SALE FRIDAY EVENING

FEBRUARY 15TH, 1907

AT MENDELSSOHN HALL

Fortieth Street, East of Broadway

BEGINNING PROMPTLY AT 8.15 O’CLOCK

WATER COLORS

WATER COLORS

Nº 1

George Poggenbeek
DUTCH: 1853-1903

EARLY EVENING

Water Color

Height, 15½ inches; width, 11½ inches

A low cottage, near which stand two leafless trees, their straggling branches extending out of the picture, is the prominent object in the composition, and is silhouetted against a quiet sky. In the foreground on the left are small wooden coops and the roof of an outbuilding, and on the right is a path bordered by a row of a small bushes. The glow of lamplight in the cottage window, which is partly screened by an opaque curtain, indicates that twilight is near.

Signed at the lower left, G. Poggenbeek.

Nº 2

Tony Offermans
DUTCH: 1854-

THE COBBLER

Water Color

Height, 18 inches; width, 13 inches

An old Dutch cobbler, pipe in mouth, sits in a low chair near a window under which is his cobbler’s bench with various tools, engaged in repairing a shoe which he holds on the leather apron on his lap. The figure is lighted by a narrow window, the casements of which are thrown open, and a petroleum lamp with a tin shade hangs from a beam over the cobbler’s head.

Signed at the lower right, T. Offermans.

Nº 3

Nicolaas Bastert
DUTCH: 1854-

WINTER IN BREUKELEN—HOLLAND

Water Color

Height, 11 inches; length, 17½ inches

A heavy fall of snow is on the ground and the winding hedge-bordered village street, which leads from the foreground around to the right between low cottages, is broken by the single track of a cart which is seen proceeding along toward the houses. On the left a row of pollarded trees grows along what is apparently a canal, now covered with ice, and on the opposite bank stands a farm building and a row of trees in winter foliage.

Signed at the lower left, N. Bastert.

Nº 4

Johannes Bosboom
DUTCH: 1817-1891

CASTLE BY THE SEA

Water Color

Height, 11 inches; width, 8½ inches

In a broad, open street or market-place in a small fishing village in Holland stands a lofty stone building with a corner tower, evidently the relics of bygone grandeur. Alongside, and contrasting strongly with it, is a low cottage with red-tiled roof, and beyond it are other cottages at the foot of a dune, over the crest of which is seen the mast of a fishing vessel. A few figures are grouped in the shade of the tower and a woman is walking toward the foreground in the sunlight.

Signed at the lower left, Bosboom, ’61.

Nº 5

Margaretha Vogel Roosenboom
DUTCH: 1843-1898

PEONIES

Water Color

Height, 12 inches; length, 20 inches

Two large white peonies in full blossom, and others in bud, have been carelessly thrown upon a stone bench in strong light from the upper left. The background is a broken tone of gray.

Signed at the lower right, Margt. Roosenboom.

Nº 6

Margaretha Vogel Roosenboom
DUTCH: 1843-1898

PEONIES

Water Color

Height, 27½ inches; width, 19½ inches

A great bunch of pink and yellow peonies, some in full blossom, some in bud, are arranged with their leaves in a low glass jar on a stone bench and are strongly lighted from the upper left. The background is a broken tone of gray.

Signed at the lower right,

Margt. Vogel Roosenboom.

Nº 7

Johannes Martinus Vrolyk
DUTCH: 1846-1896

A PASTURE IN HOLLAND

Water Color

Height, 21 inches; length, 30 inches

In the foreground a brown and white cow is browsing on the rough herbage of a broad pasture, and near her stands a peasant in a blue blouse. The pasture is bounded on the right by an irregular hedge of small trees, and on the left, in the middle distance, are seen approaching a cow and calf, and several other cattle. The view extends across the broad, irregular pasture to a distant horizon, softened by the delicate mist of summer. The sky is nearly covered by luminous clouds, and a few birds flutter above the trees.

Signed at the lower right, Jan Vrolyk.

Nº 8

Johannes Bosboom
DUTCH: 1817-1891

THE VILLAGE CANAL

Water Color

Height, 9 inches; length, 13 inches

A quiet waterway, extending from the left foreground diagonally to the right, is bordered on either side by broad, level quays. On the left, lofty buildings with red-tiled roofs rise against the sky, and on either side of the canal grow great rank trees in full foliage, and through an opening between them is a glimpse of a sunlit building. The figures of women, in characteristic white caps, are seen here and there, one of them engaged in washing clothes on the far side of the canal.

Signed at the lower right, J. Bosboom.

Nº 9

Henri Harpignies
FRENCH: 1819-

FRENCH LANDSCAPE

Water Color

Height, 8½ inches; length, 12 inches

This is a view across an open valley, broken by a roadway and irregular pools of water, to distant tree-covered slopes. On the left, irregular masses of foliage are in strong silhouette against a luminous sky, and on the right rounded trees crown the steep declivity of a low hill. Near the foreground a few slender poplars grow on a low bank between a sandy road and a pool of water which reflects the light of the sky at the zenith.

Signed at the lower left, h’hARPIGNIES, ’92.

Nº 10

Anton Mauve
DUTCH: 1838-1888

THE PEASANT’S HOME

Water Color

Height, 12 inches; width, 8½ inches

An old Dutch peasant in rough garments, wooden shoes and with an apron tied around his waist, is engaged in sweeping the ground with a rough besom, near the corner of an old board hovel. A barrel partly filled with sticks stands near him, and beyond is suggested a grassy field bounded in the distance by a grove of slender trees.

Signed at the lower right, A. Mauve.

Nº 11

Josef Israëls
DUTCH: 1824-

A PENSIVE SEWER

Water Color

Height, 13 inches; width, 8 inches

A young Dutch peasant woman is seated in a low kitchen chair near a latticed window, engaged in sewing upon a white garment, and while intent upon her work, her thoughts are evidently far away. She wears a white cap, a pink jacket and a black petticoat, and the figure is strongly lighted from the window on the left.

Signed at the lower left, Josef Israëls.

Nº 12

George Poggenbeek
DUTCH: 1853-1903

HOLLAND MEADOW—SPRING

Water Color

Height, 10½ inches; length, 16½ inches

From the right foreground a narrow canal, partly choked by a rank growth of reeds and rushes, crosses diagonally a broad, marshy meadow in which two spotted cows are lying on the grass and where pollarded willows grow. In the distance between the trees is a glimpse of a blue hillside far away, and a few sunlit clouds float in the summer sky.

Signed at the lower left, G. Poggenbeek.

Nº 13

Josef Israëls
DUTCH: 1824-

OLD AGE

Water Color

Height, 13 inches; width, 10 inches

An old peasant woman, wearing a white linen cap, an ample cloak with high collar over her shoulders and around her neck, and a black petticoat, sits in a low kitchen chair in front of a small fire on the hearth, warming her extended trembling hands, evidently enjoying the luxury of the fire.

Signed at the lower left, Josef Israëls.

Nº 14

Johannes Hendrik Weissenbruch
DUTCH: 1824-1903

A HEATH IN HOLLAND

Water Color

Height, 11 inches; length, 19 inches

A great building, roughly thatched, with a door and window in its gable end, and its ridge irregular and broken, stands in an open waste. Four slender trees grow near the building, and are the only ones which break the irregular surface of the great pasture. Three cows are wandering across the field toward the building, apparently seeking shelter for the night. A few birds flutter high in the sky above, and the light of the setting sun is concentrated near the horizon and behind the rude structure.

Signed at the lower left, J. H. Weissenbruch.

Nº 15

Willem Maris
DUTCH: 1844-

COWS IN PASTURE

Water Color

Height, 14½ inches; length, 21½ inches

Two cows, one black, spotted with white, and the other dun-colored with a white face, stand near a pool in the foreground, browsing on the reeds and coarse grass which grow there. Beyond them the view extends across the broad open pasture where other cattle are feeding, and where, in the distance, the familiar forms of windmills rise against the sky.

Signed at the lower left, Willem Maris.

Nº 16

Albert Neuhuys
DUTCH: 1844-

AMONG THE FLOWERS

Water Color

Height, 28 inches; width, 16½ inches

A lady (the artist’s wife) in outdoor costume, consisting of a brown skirt and sleeveless jacket over a black bodice and petticoat, and a turban-like hat, stands in a conservatory surrounded by chrysanthemums, plucking some of the delicately colored blossoms. The figure is lighted from the upper right, and in the background is suggested the glass roof of the conservatory with a mass of flowering plants.

Signed at the lower right, Alb. Neuhuys.

Nº 17

Johannes Hendrik Weissenbruch
DUTCH: 1824-1903

A SUMMER DAY IN HOLLAND

Water Color

Height, 21½ inches; width, 13½ inches

Four spotted cattle, watched by a small boy in a blue blouse, broad white trousers, black cap and wooden shoes, are resting, partly in sunlight and partly in shadow, near a sandy road which leads from the foreground to a lofty straw stack in the distance overhung by tall trees in heavy foliage. The full summer sun falls upon the landscape, casting a broken shadow upon the middle distance and illuminating the great masses of vapor which fill the sky.

Signed at the lower right, J. H. Weissenbruch.

Nº 18

Jacob Maris
DUTCH: 1837-1899

VIEW OF DORDRECHT

Water Color

Height, 17½ inches; length, 22½ inches

This is a view across a broad canal in the populous Dutch town, showing a number of bluff-bowed vessels alongside the quay, and beyond are a number of houses alternating with clumps of trees, dominated by a lofty church tower. The sky is filled with luminous summer sunlit clouds.

Signed at the lower left, J. Maris.

Nº 19

Fredericus Jacobus du Chattel
DUTCH: 1856-

CANAL IN HOLLAND

Water Color

Height, 29 inches; width, 19½ inches

A narrow canal extends in rapidly diminishing perspective from the foreground to the middle distance, where it is bounded by a meadow. The low banks of the canal are fringed with water-weeds, and on the left tall trees grow on either side of a country road. The calm waters, along which two swallows skim in rapid flight, reflect the luminous tones of the quiet evening sky, together with the forms of the lofty trees that grow along the bank.

Signed at the lower left, Fred. J. du Chattel.

Nº 20

David Adolphe Constant Artz
DUTCH: 1837-1890

A FISHERWOMAN

Water Color

Height, 29½ inches; width, 20½ inches

The life-sized head and shoulders of an old Dutch fisherwoman, her thin gray hair straggling out from underneath her neatly ironed white cap and her hands lying idly in her lap. Her face is in three-quarters view to the right, strongly lighted from the upper left, and bears a placid expression, which, however, tells the story of struggle in life.

Signed at the upper right, Artz.

OIL PAINTINGS

Nº 21

John La Farge, N.A.
AMERICAN: 1835-

AUTUMN

Height, 8½ inches; length, 11½ inches

This is a study of an open grove of large trees, showing two great rough tree trunks rising out of the picture in the foreground, and beyond an open rank of other trees, with a glimpse of a pond and distant hillsides farther away, and a glowing autumn sky.

Thomas B. Clarke Collection, New York, 1899.

Nº 22

David Adolphe Constant Artz
DUTCH: 1837-1900

ALONG THE RIVER

Height, 10 inches; length, 15½ inches

Beyond a quiet expanse of water which extends across the foreground is seen a broken muddy shore, gently sloping up to a fringe of low bushes, beyond which an irregular rank of poplar and other trees forms an irregular horizon line against a sky filled with rolling storm clouds touched here and there by brilliant sunlight.

Signed at the lower right, Artz.

Nº 23

L. Hervier
FRENCH

THE FISHING BOAT

Height, 13¾ inches; width, 10¾ inches

In the foreground, drawn up on the beach, is a small roughly constructed fishing boat with a single mast and lowered sail, apparently just landed after a good catch of skate, for the small cockpit is half filled with fish. A large one lies on the sand near the boat, and beyond, on the shingle-covered shore, stands a fisherwoman near a pile of fish, holding another large one in her hand. Following the line of a beach which sweeps away to the extreme distance, broken only by a single craft left high and dry by the tide, is a row of steep-roofed thatched cottages, touched here and there by a strong shaft of sunlight which breaks through the rolling storm clouds covering the sky.

Signed at the lower left, Hervier, ’47.

Nº 24

Georgio Belloni
ITALIAN

Contemporary

INCOMING SEA

Height, 11½ inches; length, 16 inches

This is a view across a broad expanse of water, showing in the foreground a shoal with gently breaking waves in a succession of small combers, and farther away, beyond narrow sandy banks which show in luminous lines in the water, is a line of breakers on the edge of the sea, beyond which the sails of a few fishing vessels gleam in the sunlight and break the level of the high horizon.

Signed at the lower left,

Nº 25

Nicolaas Bastert
DUTCH: 1854-

APPLE BLOSSOMS

Height, 13½ inches; length, 20 inches

In the near foreground in a flower-grown sward are three fruit trees in full blossom, their flower-laden branches almost concealing the sky and extending out of the picture at the top. Beyond the trees, on the far side of a low wattled fence which is flecked here and there by strong sunlight, are seen a farm-house and farm buildings among trees in full foliage.

Signed at the lower left, N. Bastert.

Nº 26

J. G. Fisher
AMERICAN

A VILLAGE ROAD

Height, 14 inches; length, 19 inches

A broad road, partly overgrown by grass and extending across the foreground, leads between stone cottages with thatched roofs to an opening under overhanging trees in the distance. Three cows are walking along the road in the sunlight, apparently on their way to the pasture just outside the confines of the village.

Signed at the lower right, J. G. Fisher.

Nº 27

J. H. Wijsmuller
DUTCH: 1855-

THE STREET MARKET

Height, 17 inches; width, 12½ inches

In a small square in a large Dutch town the usual market is being held, and crowds of people are assembled around the booths in the shadow of the houses in a narrow street, which, on the left, extends away in perspective past the corner of a large brick church which raises a lofty cupola above a steep roof against the sky. The sunlight falls upon the scene from the left, accentuating the façades and gables of the houses along the street and the front of a small public building which stands under the very eaves of the church, overhung by a clump of leafless trees.

Signed at the lower right, J. H. Wijsmuller.

Nº 28

Anton Mauve
DUTCH: 1838-1888

COW IN SUNLIGHT

Height, 10½ inches; length, 16½ inches

A dun-colored cow, spotted with white, is standing in full sunlight in a broad pasture bounded by a rank of trees in the distance. She is facing to the right, with her head somewhat lowered and her ears thrown back, and is in strong effect of full sunlight from the upper right, the face, fore legs and fore shoulders being in luminous shadow.

Signed at the lower right, A. Mauve.

Nº 29

Anton Mauve
DUTCH: 1838-1888

COWS IN PASTURE

Height, 10¼ inches; length, 13½ inches

Two cows, one red and white and the other dun-colored, are standing in the sunlight in the corner of a rich pasture which is bordered by a hedge with a row of slender trees, showing a gate leading into a field beyond. On the right is the steep roof of a farm building rising above the surrounding trees, and in the horizon against a sunlit sky is suggested a second farm-house similarly situated.

Signed at the lower right, A. Mauve.

Nº 30

John Lewis Brown
FRENCH: 1829-1890

THE FALCONERS

Height, 9½ inches; width, 7 inches

In an open glade in a great park or forest a small party of mounted falconers have been enjoying their hunt. One of them, who has been riding a white horse, has dismounted, and is conversing with a friend, apparently the host of the occasion, who, with a gesture of authority, is giving directions about the hunt. Beyond the horsemen stands an attendant in gay livery, carrying three of the hooded birds upon a perch, and behind the group a clump of trees in dense foliage rises high against a clouded sky through which the sunlight bursts and falls strongly upon the landscape.

Signed at the lower right,

John Lewis Brown, 1875.

Nº 31

Jean Charles Cazin
FRENCH: 1840-1900

THE ARTIST’S STUDIO—BOULOGNE

Height, 5½ inches; length, 8½ inches

From a rounded hilltop in the foreground, which is covered with rankly growing reeds and low bushes, the vista extends across a rolling country to the horizon, where the level line of the sea meets the sky. In the distance, on the left, a coppice in autumn foliage covers the hillside, and on the right the slopes are broken by patches of cultivated land. A few low, drifting clouds contrast with a high stratum of cirri, through rifts in which is seen the soft luminous summer sky.

Signed at the lower left, J. C. Cazin.

L. Crist Delmonico Collection, New York, 1905.

Nº 32

Jacob Maris
DUTCH: 1837-1899

SCHEVENINGEN

Height, 7½ inches; length, 13½ inches

It is a breezy day at this famous Dutch watering place and fishing village, and a line of breakers tumbles on the shallow beach and dashes over the hulls of fishing vessels which, with partly lowered sails, are awaiting the fall of the tide. In the foreground on the left is a group of fisher folk, with ladies and gentlemen. Great sunlit cumuli drift across the sky, which is reflected here and there in the shallow pools in the sand.

Signed at the lower right, J. Maris.

Nº 33

Henri Harpignies
FRENCH: 1819-

A DISTANT VILLAGE

Height, 9½ inches; length, 15 inches

From the left foreground a deep and narrow river leads away, between grassy banks, to the middle distance, where it is crossed by a stone bridge with a single arch. Beyond the bridge, which is flanked on the right by an irregular hedge, and on the left by scattered clumps of trees and bushes, is a vista across a meadow to a distant village, dominated by a church with a lofty spire. The sky is covered with a luminous haze in which sunlit scuds are drifting, and the full light of a midday summer sun falls upon the landscape.

Signed at the lower left, h’hARPIGNIES.

Nº 34

Jacob Maris
DUTCH: 1837-1899

HOLLAND LANDSCAPE

Height, 8½ inches; length, 14 inches

A rolling tract of rough land extends away to the horizon, where the sky line is formed by bare hilltops, broken here and there by the branches of leafless trees which grow along a muddy road winding from the right foreground around to the left. A cart drawn by a white horse, accompanied by a peasant, approaches along the road. Large masses of sunlit vapor nearly cover the blue of the sky.

Signed at the lower left, J. Maris.

Collection of the late George I. Seney, New York, 1894.

Nº 35

Jules Dupré
FRENCH: 1811-1889

THE EDGE OF A FOREST

Height, 9½ inches; length, 14½ inches

A few cows are seen in a small open glade in a large forest, two of them near a large ledge of rock which rises out of the coarse grass on the top of a slight elevation in the left foreground, and two others are drinking in a shallow pool under the trees on the right. A rank of densely growing trees extends across the picture in the middle distance in strong contrast against the luminous blue of the summer sky, in which small lazily floating cumuli are strongly touched by the sunlight, which accentuates the slender trunk of a tree in the middle of the composition, and glints here and there upon the animals, the rock and the grass.

Signed at the lower left, Jules Dupré.

Collection of the late George I. Seney,
New York, 1894.

Nº 36

Constant Troyon
FRENCH: 1810-1865

THE OLD FARMHOUSE

Height, 9 inches; length, 12½ inches

In the foreground on the left is a whitewashed roughly thatched cottage, the gable touched by the sunlight as well as the side of a lean-to hovel. To the right of the cottage a number of small fruit trees with gnarled and twisted trunks and branches grow near a straw stack, and beneath them in the sunlight stands the figure of a peasant woman who has apparently been hanging her clothes to dry upon a rough sapling fence. The cottage and the trees are in contrast against a simple, quiet, but luminous sky. The near foreground and the distance, in which is suggested a clump of trees, are in full sunlight.

Signed at the lower right, C. T.

Nº 37

Charles Émile Jacque
FRENCH: 1813-1894

WATERING THE HORSES

Height, 8½ inches; length, 11 inches

In the foreground, strongly illuminated by full sunshine, three horses stand near a shallow pool of water, the nearest one white, the other two gray and brown respectively. On the latter sits a peasant wearing a blue blouse and holding a whip in his hand. In the distance the open field is bounded by an irregular hedge of trees of various sorts, extending nearly to the top of the picture.

Signed at the lower left, Ch. Jacque.

Nº 38

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
FRENCH: 1796-1875

THE BATHER

Height, 10 inches; width, 8 inches

A partly draped female figure is seated upon a rock, her head turned away and resting upon her left hand, the left elbow being supported upon her right thigh. A black mantle is draped across one knee, and contrasts strongly with the flesh and a white garment which is spread upon the rock. In the background is suggested a tree trunk and a mass of foliage, and the figure is in strong effect of light from the upper right.

Signed at the lower right, Corot.

Nº 39

George Inness, N.A.
AMERICAN: 1825-1894

A MEDFIELD FARM—MASSACHUSETTS