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SAMUEL &S. LAIRD OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA oN RE EP eB LIC) VLE Ww FROM 9 A. M. UNTIL 6 P. M, BEGINNING WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1924 CONTINUING UNTIL DATE OF SALE (INCLUDING SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, FROM 2 P. M. TO 5 P. M.) TO BE SOLD BY ORDER OF MR. GEORGE 5S. LAIRD AND MR. J. LAIRD SCHOBER, EXECUTORS AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE Peer AMERICAN ART GALLERIES ONeTHESEVENING OF JANUARY 9, 1924 AT 371550 CLOCK THE SALE TO BE CONDUCTED BY MR. OTTO BERNET AND MR. HIRAM H. PARKE THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Inc., Manacers ENTRANCE 30 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK 1924 . " a oe Ys \ ‘ a Ae & if Ag Es, rm onfte adit sfite hikey ‘t1bSd "EE : oat 3 : ad (lf / ter «colt THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, I _DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIREC ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION © ; TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY aaa Pa 1&8 vit i , ‘ : Z x amie ; : - _ CONDITIONS OF SALE I. Rejection of bids: Any bid which is not commensurate with the value of the article offered, or which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may be rejected by the auctioneer if in his judgment such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. II. The buyer: The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any ‘dispute arises between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. Ill. Identification and devosit by buyer: The name of the buyer of each lot shall be given immediately on the sale thereof, and when so required, each buyer shall sign a ecard giving the lot number, amount for which sold, and his or her name and address. A deposit at the actual time of the sale shall be made of all or such part of the purchase prices as may be required. ; ; If the two foregoing conditions are not complied with, the lot or lots so pur- chased may at the option of the auctioneer be put up again and re-sold. IV. Risk after purchase: Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, and thereafter the property is at the purchasers’ risk, and neither the consignor nor the Association is responsible for the loss of, or any damage to any article by theft, fire, breakage, however occasioned, or any other cause whatsoever. i V. Delivery of purchases: Delivery of any purchases will be made only upon payment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. ; VI. Receipted bills: Goods will only be delivered on presentation of a receipted bill. A receipted bill presented by any person will be recognized and honored as an order by the buyer, directing the delivery to the bearer of the goods described thereon. If a receipted bill is lost before delivery of the property has been taken, the buyer should immediately notify the Association of such loss. VII. Storage in default of prompt payment and calling for goods: Articles not paid for in full and not called for by the purchaser or agent by noon of the day following that of the sale may be turned over by the Association to some carter to be carried to and stored in some warehouse until the time of the delivery therefrom to the purchaser. and the cost of such cartage and storage and any other charges will be charged against the purchaser and the risk of loss or damage occasioned by such removal or storage will be upon the purchaser. In any instance where the purchase bill has not been paid in full by noon of the day following that of the sale, the Association and the auctioneer reserve the right, any other stipulation in these conditions of sale notwithstanding, in respect to any or all lots included in the purchase bill, at its or his option, either to cancel the sale thereof or to re-sell the same at public or private sale without further notice for the account of the buyer and to hold the buyer responsible for any deficiency and all losses and expenses sustained in so doing. VIII. Shipping: Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Association is in no wise engaged, but the Association will, however, afford to pur- chasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. IX. Guaranty: The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- rectly and endeavors therein and also at the actual time of sale to point out any error, defect or imperfection, but guaranty is not made either by the owner or the Association of the correctness of the description, genuineness, authenticity or condition of any lot and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, error of cataloging or imper- fection not noted or pointed out. Every lot is sold ‘as is” and without recourse. Every lot is on public exhibition one or mcre days prior to its sale, and the Asso- ciation will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued and in its judgment may thereafter sell the lot as catalogued or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby will become responsible for such damage as might result were his opinion without foundation, X. Records: The records of the Auctioneer and the Association are in all cases to be considered final and the highest bid shall in all cases be accepted by both buyer and seller as the value against which all claims for losses or damage shall lie. _ XI. Buying on order: Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph, or telephone, if conditions permit, will be faithfully attended to without charge or commission. Any purchases so made will be subject to the foregoing conditions of sale, except that, in the event of a purchase of a lot of one or more books by or for a purchaser who has not through himself or his agent been present at the exhibition or sale, the Association will permit such lot to be returned within ten days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be refunded if the lot differs from its catalogue description. Orders for execution by the Association should be given with such clearness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot. and when the lot consists of one or more volumes of books or objects of arts, the bid per volume or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is unknown to the Asso- et a deposit must be sent or reference submitted. Shipping directions should also e given. _ Priced Catalogues: Priced copies of the catalogue, or any session thereof, will be furnished by the Association at charges commensurate with the duties involved in copy- ing the necessary information from the records of the Association. These conditions of sale cannot be altered except by the auctioneer or by an officer of the Association. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, INC., OTTO BERNET, MANAGERS, HIRAM H. PARKE, AUCTIONEERS, INTELLIGENT APPRAISALS FOR UNITED STATES AND STATE TAX INSURANCE AND OTHER PURPOSES AND CATALOGUES OF PRIVATE COLLECTIONS APPRAISALS AND CATALOGUES. ‘Together with the increase in its exhibition and sales rooms, the American Art Association, Inc., will expand its service of furnishing appraisements, under expert direction, of art and literary property, jewelry and all personal effects, in the settlement of estates, for in- heritance tax, insurance and other purposes. It is prepared also to supplement this work by making catalogues of the contents of homes or of entire estates, such catalogues to be modelled after the finely and intelligently produced catalogues of the Association’s own Sales. The Association will furnish at request the names of many Trust and Insur- ance Companies, Executors, Administrators, Trustees, Attorneys and private individuals for whom the Association has made appraisements which have not only been entirely satisfactory to them, but have been accepted by the United States Revenue Department, State Comptroller and others in interest. THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Inc. AT ITS AMERICAN ART GALLERiW MADISON AVENUE 56TH TO 57TH STREET ENTRANCE, 30 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK CITY _ THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, INC. | MANAGERS SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES VALUABLE PAINTINGS Collection of the late Mr. SAMUEL S. LAIRD Evening of Wednesday, January 9, 1924 To save time and to prevent mistakes each Purchaser will oblige the Managers by filling in this slip and handing it to the Record Clerk or Sales Attendant on making the first purchase. Purchaser’s Name 3 Address in Full ‘ © Amount of Deposit SPR ea aed. INTELLIGENT APPRAISALS FOR UNITED STATES AND STATE TAX INSURANCE AND OTHER PURPOSES AND CATALOGUES OF PRIVATE COLLECTIONS APPR: its exhibitior service of ft property, je heritance taz this work by catalogues t of the Assoc The As ance Compa individuals f been entirely Revenue De TH MADISON AVENUE 56TH TO 57TH STREET ENTRANCE, 30 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK CITY EVENING SALE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1924 IN THE ASSEMBLY HALL OF THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 8.15 0’ CLOCK Catalogue Numbers 1 to 103, inclusive WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS AmERriIcAan: 18338—1905 I—SUNRISHE AT ATLANTIC CITY (Water Color) Height, 11 inches; length, 21 wmches Rep-yELLow sand at the extreme right edge of the foreground; the broad flat beach lined with the ripples of all but spent waves; white combers following them, from the left. Horizon clouds tinged with colors, as the sun rising in an auroral haze whitens the distant sea. Signed at the lower left, Wm. T. Ricwarps. A. LETOR CoNTEMPORARY 2—HN PROMENADE (Water Color) Height, 19°4 inches; width, 1034 inches Aw informal path bordering an edge of a green wood in spring. A hazy sunny day. On the verdure of the pathside a blue parasol, opened, some light textiles of brilliant color, and near at hand a tall hat and a walking-stick. Signed at the lower left, A. Lrror, 776. I’. HOPKINSON SMITH AMERICAN: 1838—1915 3—VENICH Height, 131% inches; length, 231% inches Looxtne across the Molo and the Piazzetta toward the Library and the Royal Palace, which appear under a robin’s-ege sky displaying fleecy clouds. On the right the Ducal Palace, and in the foreground light green water, with a gondola just appearing under the Paglia bridge. Everywhere many modern people in many colors. Signed at the lower left, F. Hopxinson Smiru. HENRY WARD RANGER, N.A. AMERICAN: 1858—1916 4—IN HOLLAND (Water Color) Height, 20 inches; length, 2814 inches A WANDERING river or broad canal winds through a green grazing and agricultural country, its smooth surface bluish, gray and white with reflections of a confused sky. On it some laden and sluggish sailboats, with figures aboard. In a path paralleling the stream on the left, a man walking toward a distant hamlet. Signed at the lower left, H. W. Rancer, ’84. LEO HERRMANN Frencu: 1838—1907 5—THE CHEF'S RELAX ATION (Panel) Height, 6 inches; width, 4 mches In the broad sandy path of a park, where a few stray leaves have fallen, a table from some neighboring restaurant has been set with white napery and a tray holding coffee, sugar and brandy. Beyond the path the green lawn contains a bed of flowers, in the sun before dark green woodland. At the end of the table a smiling chef all in white, who faces the observer, sprawls comfortably in his chair after his refreshment, and beams with joy as he reads his favorite Figaro. Signed at the lower right, Lro HerrMann. JULES ADOLPHE GRISON Frencu: 1845— 6—RhELADING (Panel) Height, 4 inches; width, 3 wmches FuLt-LenctTH portrait of a gentleman seated in a high-backed arm- chair in the corner of a room, smoking a long-stemmed clay pipe and reading, an open window at his left giving upon a green garden. He faces the observer and slightly toward the right, and his rich costume includes an olive waistcoat and white jabot, crimson coat and orange breeches. Signed at the lower left, Grison. JULES JACQUES VEYRASSAT Frencu: 1828—18938 7—HARV ESTING Height, 31% inches; length, 64 inches Two hay wagons, each drawn by a black and white horse, are standing near a half-finished hayrick, both of them partly hidden by the mass of hay. Peasant women on the rick are busy tramping down the hay which is pitched upon the pile from the loads. Im the distance is a pleasant sunlit landscape, with low hills at the horizon. Signed at the lower right, J. VeyRAssAT. From the H. Wood Sullivan Collection, April 3, 19038. CHARLES EMILE JACQUE Frencu: 1813—1894 8—_SHHEPFOLD (Panel) Height, 41% inches; length, 54 inches In a faintly shadowed corner of a sheepcote two gray sheep are stand- ing, turned slightly toward the left and with backs to the spectator, feeding at a rack. A soft light slanting in from above glints from glossy surfaces of their fleece, and gives a greenish-golden note to the straw on the floor, where a white hen is pecking. Signed at the lower left, Cu. JACQUE. From the William Schaus Sale, New Y ork, 1898. From the James B. Haggin Collection, April 4, 1917. DAVID JOHNSON, N.A. AMERICAN: 1827—1908 9—ON THE DELAWARE, AT HANCOCK (Board) Height, 424, inches; length, 64 inches PaRALLELING the river, which reaches from foreground to distance on the left, an informal road runs between lines of trees on the right, the trees in silhouette against a light sky. Cows stand in the shallow water near the grassy shore line. In the distance on the far side of the stream, houses and a hill. Signed at the lower right, DJ (monogram), and again on the back with title. ETIENNE PROSPER BERNE-BELLECOUR Frencu: 1838—1910 10—SOLDIERS AND VILLAGE (Panel) Height, 484 inches; length, 814 inches Trree French buglers in their blue and red uniform are portrayed in a sunny and grassy foreground, two of them standing, one seated on the side of a hill at the left. In a valley in the middle distance the numerous houses of a village or town, with green woods turning brown in the distance beyond them. Signed at the lower left, HX. BERNE-BELLEcouR, 1877. C. HOGUET NINETEENTH CENTURY 11—PACKING VEGETABLES (Panel) Height, 51% inches; length, 714 inches Fresu vegetables in variety strew the floor of a basement or cellar room to which a broad light penetrates. A far window looks dimly upon a green outdoors. Under the heavily beamed ceiling and beside the entrance to a stairway a peasant woman in red and blue and white is placing the vegetables in large market baskets and covering them. Signed at the upper left, C. Hocus, 58. EUGENE JOSEPH VERBOECKHOVEN Betciran: 1799—1881 12—SHEEP AND CHICKENS (Panel) Height, 61% inches; length, 8 inches Lytne on the thick and warm-hued straw in a sheepcote are seen a white ewe and her lamb, the ewe facing the left with head up, the lamb curled at her feet. At one side a gray and white hen gathers her brood. Both groups in sunshine. Signed vertically on the beam at the right, Kucknr VrER- BOECKHOVEN. WILHELM VELTEN GERMAN: 184'7— 13—_THE HUNTERS HALT (Panel) Height, 6144 inches; length, 914 inches AN inn among its vines, on the right, opens upon a yard, at the left of which are related buildings, and through a gateway is seen an allée of green trees. At the inn porch mine host and a maid are serving wine to a finely clad man who has dismounted from his white hunter, while a companion still seated on his dark chestnut mount is lighting his pipe. Signed at the lower right, W. VetTEN, MUNCHEN. C. HOGUET NINETEENTH CENTURY 14—AT THE FIREPLACE (Panel) Height, 614 inches; width, 434 inches SEATED on a low stool before a gray fireplace a peasant woman in red, wearing a green apron and a white cap, bends over cooking-kettles, raising the lid of one while she holds in her other hand the knife with which she is cutting vegetables for further culinary operations. Be- side her, a comfortably seated cat. On the mantel shelf various jars and utensils. Signed at the lower left, C. Hocurr, *63. ADOLPH SCHREY ER PP: LASIO German: 1828—1899 15—-WALLACHIAN POST STATION ie (Panel) Height, 81 inches; width, 644 inches THe corner of a rude but firmly built rustic cabin with thatch roof projects from the right, receding to a fence which encloses its door- yard. Snow clings to the roof, and covering the ground blows toward the foot of a single, solid wooden door which is closed. A lone horse- man, swarthy of hue and heavily clad, mounted on a short sorrel stal- lion, has ridden to the door and raps on it with the butt of his whip. Signed at the lower right, Ap. SCHREYER. From the William Schaus Collection. From the Mary J. Morgan Collection, New York, 1866; No. 60. From the Mrs. E. W. Bass Collection, New York. (Illustrated) ENGLISH SCHOOL 16—LANDSCAPEHE WITH COTTAGES Height, 814 inches; length, 14 wches A coTrace at right, with trees and wild-growing bushes; in the middle distance another cottage at left, under a blue sky filled with white clouds. In front of the former cottage, in the sunshine, a little girl in blue skirt and white cap is seated on the ground, and a country woman in orange waist and crimson skirt approaches, carrying a bucket. F. NARCHETTI Sf. ot 2¢7 Itattan: CoNTEMPORARY ?17—ROMEO AND JULIET SERENADE (Panel) Height, 1184 inches; length, 16 inches On a balcony of a Venetian palace flanked by its garden of flowers and trees a fair young lady with flowing Titian tresses and wearing an emerald gown appears, and reaches down for a bouquet handed up toward her by a man in blue and green, while a young man in brown and crimson plays a lute, looks up and sings, both men in a gondola brought to a halt by a gaily dressed gondolier. Signed at the lower right, KF. Narcuettt, 1885. ANTONIO CASANOVA Y ESTORACH SpanisH: 1847—1896 183—_THE YAWN Height, 914 wmches; width, 634 inches Facine the spectator and with his chair tilted back against the wall a self-complacent gentleman in silver-gray silk, gray stockings and brown leather shoes rests his head against his hands which are clasped at the back of it, and indulges in a prolonged yawn. He wears a gray hat and a rose-hued sash, and his sword and pipe are at his side. Signed at the lower right, A. CAsANova, Roma, 1872. LEO HERRMANN Frencu: 1838—1907 19THE CARDINALI’S REFRESHMENT Height, 10 inches; width, 7 inches Fuut length figure of a gray-haired cardinal in flowing robes and skull- cap, seated in a high-backed chair upholstered in dark crimson, par- taking of a hot beverage from a white coffee cup, the remainder of his refreshment service at hand on a table with a green covering. He is in profile to the right. Floor covering a brilliant Oriental rug; back- ground dark. Signed at the upper right, Leo HERRMANN. From the William Schaus Sale. From the H. S. Waite Collection, April 24, 1919. A. GUES FRENCH 20—STANDARD BEARER (Panel) Height, 8 inches; width, 6 inches A MIDDLE-AGED man with a full reddish beard is sitting on a stool before a carved door with long strap hinges. He leans forward with right elbow resting on knee and in his left hand holds the folds and staff of a white and blue standard. He is dressed in gray and orange with bright yellow stockings. Signed at the lower left, A. Guks. From the Simeon J. Drake Collection, March 24, 1915. J. BEAUFAIN IRVING, N.A. AmERIcAN: 1826—1877 21—ON WATCH (Panel) Height, 9 mches; width, 7 inches In the crypt or cloisters of a churchly edifice which has been battered by wars or time a cavalier in rich seventeenth century dress has taken refuge, with a faithful follower in helmet and cuirass. They stand facing an archway at the left, alert on the defensive, the cavalier with sword drawn and one hand on the shoulder of his friend and defender, who has leveled his musket. Signed at the lower right, J. Beauratn Irvine, N.A. From the William Schaus Collection. JEHAN GEORGES VIBERT Frencu: 1840—1902 22—THE SENTINEL Height, 121% inches; width, 9 inches At a small doorway of castle or fortress a solitary man is seen on guard, at the foot of a winding flight of stone steps. He is in brown garb with red stockings and wears a steel helmet, and is armed with battle-axe and sword. Signed at the lower right, J. G. Vinert, 69. From the John W. Sterling Collection, January 17, 1919. CARL KRONBERGER Austrian: 1847— 23—HAPPINESS IN STUDY (Panel) Height, 9 inches; width, 624 inches THREE-QUARTERS length portrait of an aged monk in black habit and skull cap, seated and facing the right at a table on which a huge parchment volume is open, and with arms resting on it he reads with such pleasure that his wrinkled face is beaming with delight. Signed at the upper left, C. KRonBERGER. ERSKINE NICOL, R.S.A., A.R.A. Eneuisu: 1825—1904 24—HAPPY IN HIS OWN MUSIC Height, 131% mches; width, 11 mches A FLoRID and husky oldster in a green coat and brown waistcoat and trousers sits beside a plain wooden table, on which his hat and glass rest, and looking with gay and complacent good humor at the ob- server, proceeds to play to his own satisfaction on his own guitar, Signed at the upper left, E. N. From the John W. Sterling Collection, January 17, 1919. A. BONNEMAISON 25—ON THE SHORE Height, 10% inches; length, 131% inches On the left of the sandy foreground are two fish baskets. A third lies near the centre, behind which sits a woman in white cap and apron, while at her back stands another. In the distance near the water’s edge appear six more figures, and to the right of them a man on horse- back. Two sails dot the whitish sea, which catches the light from a pale greenish sky overspread with layers of white cloud. Signed at the right, A. BoNNEMAISON. From the Mrs. S. B. Conklin Collection, February 9, 1905. ALBERTO PASINI Iratian: 1826—1899 26—EN GRAND CORTEGE (Panel) Height, 1034 inches; width, 814, inches Comine down a defile in a rough country, and emerging from shadow into brilliant sunlight, a Bedouin escort leads and accompanies two personages traveling in state and dimly perceived in the depths of a scarlet and green howdah borne by a haughty camel. The escort ride proud and prancing horses and are garbed in rich colors. Signed at the lower right, A. Pasint, 1866. JULES WORMS Frencu: 1832—1881 27—S°'IL VOUS PLAIT! (Panel) Height, 14 inches; width, 101% inches Aw interior with two figures—a bewiskered man in blue breeches and red stockings, mustard jacket trimmed with red and a white waist- coat, on the left, with feet apart and hands spread in front of him palm upward, apparently either pleading for cash due or indicating an inability to go on otherwise; and a tall man in domino and high conical cap with astronomical figures on it, who poses thoughtfully in helpless attitude with arms folded and downward gaze. Entertain- ment poster on wall. Signed at the lower right, J. Worms. ETIENNE PROSPER BERNE-BELLECOUR Frencu: 1838—1910 283—-_SCALING A WALL (Panel) Height, 1784 wmches; width, 12% inches In brilliant sunshine under a turquoise sky the corner of a creamy, plastered brick wall, with a globe atop the coping and an abutment reinforcing the angle, is depicted close in the foreground, a patch of green grass in front of it. Here are two blue uniformed Frenchmen, one astride the wall on his way over and the other reaching up to him his musket. Signed at the lower left, HE. BErNE-BELLECOUR. CHARLES LEICKERT Beucian: 1817— 29—FISHERMENS HOMES Height, 18 mches; length, 24 inches ENTERING into view from the right, grass-grown dunes descending to the broad flat beach of a stretch of the Dutch or Belgian coast, with — the tide out and the sea and various vessels visible at the left. Heavy fishing boats with sails lie on the sands or in the shallows, and figures are seen along the beach. In the foreground, on the dunes, brick and tile cottages of a fishing hamlet stand out in the sunlight, and about them are men, women and children, to the number of a score or more. Signed at the lower left, Cu. LetcKEert, F. ’59. LEON VICTOR DUPRE Frencu: 1816—1879 30—LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES Height, 1144, inches; length, 18°4, inches Far-Fuune fields, level or lightly rolling, and given to to grass or cultivation, stretch away to blue hills under a brilliant sky. In a sunny pasture of the foreground, red cows and white ones and a black one stand lazily or are lying down, and a woman standing converses with a farmer seated on the grass. Signed at the lower right, Victor Durrett, 1856. ANDREAS SCHELFHOUT Dutcu: 1787—1870 31—_W INTER IN HOLLAND (Panel) Height, 94 inches; length, 13 inches A proap and frozen river curls forward from the distance, between a wooded point on the left and a lower point on the right, the latter supporting a low gray cottage with a high gable roof of red tile. Backwaters of the stream appear in the foreground, and brown rushes in and about them project above their blue and gray-white ice covering. On the ice both nearby and far away are heavy Dutch figures, skat- ing. In the background a populous town. On back (written) : “A. Schelfhout, The Hague, 1857.” THEOPHILE EMMANUEL DUVERGER Frencu: 1821— 32—FHEDING THE PET BIRD (Panel) Height, 1284 mches; width, 914 inches Two girls are pictured in a cottage room having varied utensils hang- ing on the walls, and a floor of red tile. One facing the spectator is partially seated on a table on which rests a bird cage, and she holds in one hand a pet bird, to which she is feeding berries from a bowl held by a smaller girl who faces her and is seen in profile. They wear home apparel of varied colors and appear in a soft light from a win- dow at the left. Signed at the lower left, Duvercrr. Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1858, No. 203, by James Harrison, Jr. NARCISSE BERCHERE Frencu: 1822—1891 3883—THE OLD WHITE HORSE (Panel) Height, 9 inches; length, 9% inches Pastures and other fields extend on the right to a distant hamlet whose church appears on the horizon. At left in middle distance the land rises to a bunch of trees standing before the corner of a farm building. In the foreground at a bar, or rail gate, and in the sun- shine stand an old but sturdy white horse and a black and brownish goat. The horse, a fine old animal, faces the left and is carefully and expressively studied, and the lights on its coat, engaging in quality, are sympathetically treated. LEON AUGUSTIN LHERMITTE Frencu: 1844— 34—IN THE ORCHARD Height, 10% inches; length, 138°4 mches On the right a farm woman in gray waist and blue apron stands on the brown earth of a cultivated field, sickle in hand, beside an orchard just beyond which is a green field of partly cut hay. Some of the orchard trees are in blossom, cottages are seen along the foot of a hill and a church stands on top of it, and the sunshine shines under a hazy spring sky. Signed at the lower left, L. LuEermirre. THEOPHILE EMMANUEL DUVERGER Frencu: 1821— 35—_WOH IN THE STABLE (Panel) Height, 131% inches; width, 10% wmches A very small girl in a blue frock and white cap has come to grief and lies prone and crying on the straw-strewn floor of a farm stable, and an older boy stands looking down at her while he holds a wholly uncon- cerned white nannygoat. On a table and in a food trough at the rear, under a feed rack, lie pumpkin and other vegetables. Signed at the lower left, DuvEercER. FREDERICK JOHANN VOLTZ German: 1817—1886 36—AT THHK FARM (Panel) Height, 91% inches; length, 151% inches Own green grass in the foreground a black cow is standing and a white- faced rew cow and a goat are lying down, in the sun, against a fence over which a pollarded tree leans; beyond the fence a building with a tile and thatch roof. At left in the background a stream where ducks swim and cows drink, a maid on a footbridge watching them, and a comfortable farmhouse. Signed at the lower right, Fr. Vourz, ’85. JOHN GEORGE BROWN, N.A. ge ee AmeERIcAN: 1831—1913 Ofo7 oLnotocd 37—PROUD OF HIS BICEPS Height, 18 inches; width, 12 inches FuLt-LenctTH portrait of one of the artist’s favorite bootblacks of of nineteenth century New York, seated and facing the left, three- quarters front. He is sitting on his upturned “Shine” box, and brushes and shoe polish lie in front of him. Smilingly he raises his shirt sleeve and shows how his work develops his muscle. Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A. BENJAMIN EUGENE FICHEL Frencu: 1826—1895 | SF es VIA Y fe QO MoS. te 383—GAMING AT THE INN Cf On! Cp cecer (Panel ) Height, 1424 inches; length, 21%4 inches Wiruin the spacious room of an inn which shows a large fireplace a dozen gentlemen are portrayed, most of them seated at table, playing games, their swords in evidence beside them. They are in crimson and emerald velvet, and other colors, and wear gorgets and white collars, small clothes and sandals. Signed at the lower left, E. Ficuer, 1886. N. PRESCOTT-DAVIES EncuisH: CoNTEMPORARY 39—_IDEAL HEAD Height, 16 inches; width, 12 inches Porrratir nearly at half-length of a handsome young English woman, facing the left and observed a little more than in profile, in brilliant light against a neutral grayish background. She wears a pale green- ish robe of soft material looped in classic design over her shoulder, revealing her bare arms and a low neck, and her light hair is bound with a scarf of pale gold figured in turquoise-blue. In her right hand she holds up flowers to scent their fragrance. Signed at the lower right, N. Prescott-Davisrs, 1893. PIERRE EDOUARD FRERE Frencu: 1819—1886 40—COUNTING HER CHANGE (Panel ) Height, 1224 inches; width, 914 inches A youne girl in an olive-gray smock over an orange-brown skirt has returned from market with a basket of green vegetables, which she has set down beside her in the corner of a gray-walled cottage room. She has seated herself on a stool near a stove on which a kettle boils, and is pensively counting her petites pieces. She faces the left, three- quarters front. Signed at the lower right, Epovarp Frere, ’81. MARIE FRANCOIS FIRMIN-GIRARD Frencu: 1838— 4I—A BHAUTY OF THE HAREM Height, 1534, inches; width, 1014 inches STanpine figure of a dark-haired, plump and smiling young woman with large golden hoop earrings, lower legs bare and one slipper kicked off, facing the spectator as she leans against a tile and plaster wall. Her knee-length dress is white and filmy and she wears a scarlet girdle and multicolor sash, a gold-spangled scarf and fancy headdress. At her left a mosque ball is suspended from a cabinet, above a divan beside which stands a narghileh. Signed at the lower left, Firm1in-Girarp, 1872. PAUL LOUIS NARCISSE GROLLERON Frencu: 1848—1901 42 SOLDIER RESTING Height, 1644 inches; width, 13 inches GREEN turf cut by a rude road extends from foreground to a distant crest over which a bit of sky is visible. A few trees and some brown brush comes to view on the right, and at left the scene is bounded by a brown hillside. On the grass in the foreground a French infantry- man burdened with a heavy pack has seated himself for a momentary rest while he rebandages his wounded leg. Signed at the lower left, P. GroLLERON. DAVID JOHNSON, N.A. American: 1827—1908 483—MOUNT LAFAYETTE, NEW HAMPSHIRE Height, 1014 inches; length, 18 inches ExtTenpine across the middle distance a green and wooded valley, whence a river of swift current winds to the foreground, where trees and brush show autumnal colors. At left a glimpse of woodcutters’ cottages. In the distance a gray range of white peaks under a light grayish sky strewn with white clouds. _ Signed at the lower left, DJ (monogram) 1871; and again on the back, with title. ETIENNE ADOLPHE PIOT FRENCH: CONTEMPORARY 44—LA PRIERE (Panel) Height, 1914, inches; width, 1614, inches Porrrair in profile of a fair young girl, her pale blond hair falling about her shoulders, her eyes directed upward and her clasped hands brought up before her breast, nearly to her lifted chin. She faces the left, with a full light from the right and in front on her fair features, before a dark background. Portrayed at less than half- length, in a pale green frock. Signed midway at the left, A. Pior. From the Salon of 1895, No. 1540, and bearing the label of a previous mention. S- : VO . LOUIS EUGENE BOUDIN A .C4 VOGuUEL Frencu: 1824—1898 45—MARINE Height, 9 inches; length, 141% imches THE observer looks into the mouth of a harbour, straight up a river in which are seen various square riggers, one being towed down in the middle of the stream, the smoke of the tug drifting across her bow. The water is silvery-gray, reflecting a cloud-screened sky sparsely dotted with blue. At left the square tower of a church or town build- ing, in the middle distance, and on the opposite bank of the river, at right, a windmill and some colorful cottages. Signed at the lower right, EK. Bounty, 1885. CHARLES OLIVIER DE PENNE Frencu: 1831—1897 46—DOGS AND WOODS (Panel) Height, 16 inches; width, 1034 inches Two fine dogs of dignified expression are pictured facing the right, one on its haunches, one lying down, both with leashes leading to the high bar of a heavy gate. Sunshine reveals the soft glisten of their coats and illumines in varying penetration the greenery of the thick woods supplying their background. Signed at the lower right, OL. DE PENNE. FREDERICK JOHANN VOLTZ GrerMAN: 1817—1886 ee Urn 47—BOY WITH COWS , CONelliy 9 (Panel) Height, 144% mches; length, 16 inches Unver a tree of enormous trunk and dense foliage but relatively short limbs, a barefooted farmer’s boy is seated high on an adjunct of a gray wooden farm building, smiling at a favorite black cow who is momentarily interested in him. Both boy and cow are partly in sun- shine and partly in shadow, as are a red cow and a tawny and white calf in front of them, drinking at a brook. Signed at the lower left, Fr. Vourz, 1867. @ Hm: ¥IO @ WILLIAM HART, N.A. UUu«uE> American: 1823—1894 48—LANDSCAPE AND CATTLE | Height, 14 inches; length, 18 inches Own the right in middle distance three cows standing in the sunshine on the green bank of a river which winds through sylvan country, and beyond them as many more, their coats of varying color, standing in the stream. Tall trees on the bank put the second group partly in the shade. On the opposite bank of the river more trees, mirrored in the water, and in the distance blue hills. Signed at the lower right, Wm. Hart, 1886. From Reichard’s, New York. BAREND CORNELIS KOEKKOEK Dutcu: 1803—1862 49—-LANDSCAPE AND FIGURES (Panel) Height, 1514 mches; length, 18%4 inches In a grayish earthern road just within the edge of a wood, on the left, several figures appear, standing, or seated on the bordering grass —two women and three men, a dog, and a horse attached to a two- wheeled farm cart. They are observed at a bend, where sunshine from open lands at the right illumines the road as it emerges from the wood, only to enter transparent shadow again in the foreground. Here a brook is seen at the side of the road. In the distance, across the open country at the right, the tower of a church appears over a hill. | Signed at the lower left, B. C. Korxxorx, 1856. ; 4 ETIENNE ADOLPHE PIOT Frencuo: ConTEMPORARY 50—THE LOVE LETTER Height, 1844 inches; width, 1514, inches Porrrair nearly at half-length of a young woman seated with figure to left and face turned three-quarters front, before a crimson drapery, holding up a missive and smiling happily as she reads. She has dark chestnut hair done in many waves, and a diaphanous lavender-white scarf loosely wrapped about her leaves nude her shoulder, which catches the high light of the composition. Signed at right, above the shoulder, A. Prior. UNIDENTIFIED 5I—-LANDSCAPE Height, 201% inches; length, 301% inches A River in the foreground at the left bends to right in the middle distance, its blue and silvery surface mirroring background trees at the bend, and also trees and shrubs growing along its bank on the right. In a path along this bank, paralleling a rail fence, a farmer leads a number of cows toward a fine old white farmhouse with addi- tional smaller buildings, while a woman appears far ahead of him in the same path. Within the angle of the river bend stands a white church surrounded by tall trees. Signature at lower left not readily decipherable. ANGELO ASTI Irauian: 1847—19038 52—IDEAL HEAD Height, 24 inches; width, 1814 inches Heap and bust portrait of a young woman with large eyes of light brown, and an abundance of brown hair which parted over the centre of her forehead is spread in a loose mass of curling and wavy tresses which spans her shoulders and comes well down her arms. With figure somewhat to left, her face is turned to the front, with the light full upon it and upon her breast. Low corsage. Crimson kerchief about her head. Signed at the lower right, A. Astt. LUDWIG MUNTHE 1841— 583—A WINTER SUNSET Height, 21 inches; width, 1714 inches From the right foreground a road leads away to the middle distance, where it makes a turn to the right near a cottage. The ground is covered with partly thawed snow, and in the level places and in the ruts and toot-tracks on the road pools of snow-water reflect the glow of the winter sunset. Two peasants are stolidly tramping through the slush, fluttering crows are about to settle on the trees, and high in the heavens is the crescent of the new moon. Signed at the lower left, L. Muntue. From the George I. Seney Sale, 1894. From the Estate of the late Mark Hoyt, February 9, 1905. BAREND CORNELIS KOEKKOEK Dutcu: 1803—1862 54—FOREST AND FIGURES (Panel) OR Eee Height, 1714, inches; width, 151% wches GREEN forest depths on either hand, and an informal road coming from the distance through the centre. Along this travelers from the countryside have come, reaching an open spot in the foreground where they have paused beside a brook—men and a woman, accompanying sheep and laden asses, and one man mounted on a farm horse. They converse in sunshine slanting down upon them from the left. Signed at bottom to right of centre, B. C. KorKKoek, FT., 1850. On back a manuscript paster in Dutch, signed and sealed by the artist, declaring the painting and its date. JULIEN DUPRE Frencu: 1851—1910 55—AT THE DRINKING POOL Height, 1814 mches; length, 22 inches Gray shower clouds drifting away in a blue sky mark hills and a fertile valley with shadows, in foreground and distance, and leave the middle- ground in bright sunshine. ‘To a lily pond in the foreground a man, a girl and a boy have brought cows and sheep to drink, and the shepherd casts an eye toward the red-bonneted maid, who carries a hay rake over her shoulder. Signed at the lower right, JuLien Dupre. : Voo JOHANNES WEILAND Dutcu: 1858—1907 56—THE COTTAGE WINDOW Height, 26 inches; width, 2134 inches Tue corner of an Old World cottage room, with a modest window look- ing out upon green fields in the background, where a pollarded tree is seen. Within, seated before the window, an old woman in gray, with blue apron and a white cap, bends over her work of repairing blankets. She faces the window and is seen in profile. To left of the window, smoke curls out into the room from a low fireplace. Signed at the lower left, WrILAND, ’99. JULIEN DUPRE Frencu: 1851—1910 57—MILKING TIME Height, 18 inches; length, 24 inches In peasant clothes of red and gray and white and wearing a red ker- chief binding her hair a young girl is walking away from the spectator through the deep grass of rough fields, carrying two milk pails. Near her in the foreground are a black and white and a red and white cow and a white sheep, beside a pollarded tree at the edge of a pool, and in the background more cows are grazing in a meadow, and poplars rise before a green hill under a murky sky. Signed at the lower right, JutieEN Dupre. JOHANNES WEILAND Dutcu: 1858—1907 58—THE YOUNG MOTHER Height, 2534 inches; width, 2114 inches Wrrury a gray-walled cottage room and under a bright and soft light a smiling and very youthful girl is seated, facing the left, three- quarters front, sewing while she watches a rosy and chubby infant sleeping in its rush cradle at her feet. On a table at her side, fruit and a gray teapot and a white porcelain cup. Signed at the lower left, WEILAND. PAUL SEIGNAC Frencu: 1826—1904 59—THE LITTLE WATER CARRIER Height, 2114 inches; width, 1814 inches Aw interior with figures, and an outlook upon a sunny garden, and as well a generous display of still life within the cottage room, where copper, pottery and glass supply a variety of delicate colors in their reflections of the outdoor light. At an open door at left, leading in from the rear garden, a small girl stands with a large water jug she has just filled. Inside the room her young mother is at work sewing, seated facing the right and the rear garden window and observed profil perdu. Out in the garden, vines, trees and flowers, and beyond them neighboring gray buildings with red tile roofs. Signed at the lower left, SrigNac. ITALIAN SCHOOL 60—LANDSCAPE, ARCHITECTURE AND FIGURES Height, 171% inches; length, 2414 inches Ar left in middle distance and projecting well to the right, a large, rambling and tall building group, reddish-brown in tone, with monastic suggestions, hints of partial ruin, and within the group occasional trees. The foreground forms a great if presently informal court, and here numerous idling figures, men and women, are seen, some of them about a large sculptured fountain suggestive of former grandeur. Across the water of the fountain, at right, reflections of a fading sunset. sky. Signature at the lower right (not deciphered). WILLIAM H. BEARD, N.A. AMERICAN: 1825—1900 61—BRER FOX AND BRER RABBIT Height, 18 inches; length, 24 inches In sunshine on sand and grassy ground before a dark green wood fringed in autumn colors, a fox clothed in crimson and ermine struts on its hind legs and looks haughtily at a standing bunny in a buff coat. The bunny is in an attitude of address, and numerous other rabbits in human clothing stand about in critical scrutiny. Signed at the lower left, W. H. Bzarp, 1885. JOHN GEORGE BROWN, N.A. AMERICAN: 1831—1913 62—THE YOUNG MUSICIAN Height, 21 inches; width, 17 inches SEATED on the stone coping of a tenement doorway a ragged urchin of most serious expression, who gazes thoughtfully upward, holds a violin across his knees and seems to be dreaming of a time when he should be able to play it. Signed at the lower left, J. G. Brown, N.A., 1878. C. HOGUET NINETEENTH CENTURY 683—_-SHEPHERD AND SHEEP AT THE VERGE OF THE SEA Height, 18 inches; width, 1444 inches Tue observer looks across the tip of a modest promentory to a smooth blue sea reaching to a low horizon of smoky and white clouds in a light azure sky. ‘The land is covered with coarse grass and coarser brownish herbage, and here are found a few white sheep.in the sun- shine, their white-capped and blue-coated shepherd standing at an upheaved rock and looking out over the water. At left a middle dis- tance cliff and low shore. Signed at the lower left, C. Hocuer. HERMAN FREDERIC CAREL TEN KATE Dutcu: 1822—1891 64_IN HOSPITAL (Panel) Height, 17 inches; length, 234% inches Six figures in seventeenth-century costume are depicted in the reception room of a military hospital, and two more are about to enter from a neighboring corridor. A drum and colors and other paraphernalia lie at one side. At right a surgeon is attending a wounded cavalier propped with pillows in his chair, to whom a nurse is bringing nourish- ment. Back of this group a record of entries is being made at a table with a rich emerald covering, and from the corridor another wounded man is being brought in. Signed at the lower right, HERMAN TEN Karte, FT. T. ACEVES LOREDO SPANISH: CONTEMPORARY 65—INTERIOR OF ALCAZAR, SEVILLA Height, 23% mches; width, 18 mches Hicuxiy intricate ornamentation in many colors brightens the rich Moresque architecture of the princely pile, the picture displaying a patio where a fountain plays, a potted palm standing beside it. At right a crimson cushion lies on an Oriental rug which is spread on the marble floor, and a Turkish water pipe with its tobacco bowl still smoking stands near it. Signed at the lower left, T. AtcrEves LorEpo, SEVILLA. PAUL JEAN CHARLES CLAYS Bercian: 1819—1900 66—FISHING BOATS (Panel) Height, 18 inches; length, 24% inches A coop-sizEp bulky vessel, with a single mast and red and yellow sails, appears in the foreground waters at the left; back of it are the white sails of another vessel, and in the middle distance in the right centre are two other vessels of the same type passing out to sea. Over- head is a breezy sky of gray clouds with spaces of blue. Signed at the lower right. From the Estate of the late James V. Parker, January 4, 1918. FREDERICK ARTHUR BRIDGMAN, N.A. AMERICAN: 184'7— 67—_RUE DU SPHINX Height, 20 inches; length, 24 inches In the foreground the rough stone pavement of an Algerian street slopes to a drain grating at the centre. A dark-skinned woman garbed in brilliant colors and bearing a head load approaches, carrying her- self erect yet with a supple ease, and with a smiling interest keenly regards the spectator. At right a girl in pink guarding her vegetable stand leans against the building wall and gazes across the street toward a bazaar or sheltered booth where an aged man reclines in the shade and an unveiled beauty in white is seated at the street’s verge for the attention of the interested. At middle distance the street abruptly narrows to an arched stair leading through buildings to a further open street, figures being seen on the stair and a placard at the entrance reading “Rue du Sphinx.” Signed at the lower left, F. A. Brineman, 1887. SP a QY 0 - Vv S00 LOUIS GABRIEL EUGENE ISABEY CVAILYN Frencu: 1803—1886 68—_THH DEPARTURE FOR THE HUNT Height, 29 inches; width, 23%4 inches Ot, bf Two horsemen with their retainers and their hunting dog have come in through the courtyard archway near the middle of the composition and are greeted by the ladies of the castle who are seen at the foot of the stone stairway, at the right. Through the gateway is a view of the tree-lined avenue and above the groups of personages rise the inside walls, turrets and roofs of the building. High above all is a space of blue and white sky. Signed at lower left, E. Isanry, 1852. Purchased from Eugene Glaenzer, New York. From the collection of the late Julius E. French, Cleveland, Ohio. Ef Veeeerter 1GE- FB. veo CHARLES EMILE JACQUE Frencyu: 1813—1894 69—_SHHEP ENTERING THE BARN Height, 26 inches; width, 21144 inches CrosrE in the foreground a large flock of sheep heavily coated crowd upon one another, as, coming from the left, they enter through a high and narrow doorway a light grayish stone and plaster barn with a roof of warm brown, which stands on the right. Beyond them their shepherd in his blue blouse stands overseeing the entry. With the exception of partial shadow at the left the group is in sunshine, and the white noses of the sheep appear in relief against the gray of their unctuous wool. Two white lambs are among them, and the shepherd’s dog stands at one side performing his part of the shepherding. A white hen looks down from a window sill and a white and a black one peck in the straw lying on the ground. Signed at the lower left, Cu. Jacque. Exhibited at the Union League of Philadelphia, Art Loan Exhibition, 1899. Purchased from the Estate of the late Henry B. Ashmead. f 4 GEORGES MICHEL Frencu: 1763—1843 70—LANDSCAPE IN SUNSHINE AND STORM Height, 23 inches; length, 28 inches At the left the edge of a wood partly open and partly made up of trees of dense leafage, whose shadows the sunshine casts forward and to right, down a gentle incline and upon the green and yellowish grass of the foreground. Through an opening in the trees a windmill comes to view in the left middle distance. To right in the foreground are a few trees growing at lower levels, and beyond them sunshine floods the landscape under a black storm cloud which is passing away toward the right. From Arnold and Tripp, Paris. JULES JACQUE VEYRASSAT Frencu: 1828—1893 71—TOILERS RESTING Height, 2114 inches; length, 2934 inches In a rough and broken countryside of grass and stones and a scatter- ing of young trees—-the purlieus or extremity, perhaps, of a cleared forest—two of the older trees survive at the centre of the foreground, one partly blasted but sending forth leaves in its age. Its neighbor, short and sturdy, meets its limbs with more foliage, green and also showing autumn hues. Here in the shade three men have gathered for a brief rest, one of them standing. Each has his two-wheeled cart and tandem team of gray or white and brown horses, and these stand some in sunshine and others in the shade, at right or left or between the trees. Signed at the lower right, J. VEyRAssAT. (Illustrated ) JULIEN DUPRE Frencu: 1851—1910 72—ON A FRENCH FARM Height, 29 inches; width, 21 inches Unver a light and varied summer sky, harvested fields and fields in bloom, in the middle distance, are bounded in the foreground by a rough field of green grass which descends to a bit of water. Down a path through the grass a young peasant woman comes, stepping leisurely, right hand resting at her hip and in her left arm a bundle of grain. She wears a dark bodice over her white waist, and a gray-blue apron over her dark reddish skirt, and her hair is bound in a red kerchief. Near her stands a small boy giving his attention to some ducks. Signed at the lower left, Jut1eEN Dupre. AUGUST FREDERIC ALBRECHT SCHENCK Dutcu: 1828—1900 73—-LANDSCAPE WITH SHEEP AND SHEPHERD Height, 1234 inches; length, 32 inches Over a broad countryside of slightly rolling land many sheep are seen, a part of the large flock far away and the shepherd sitting on a bridge across a brook, at left in middle distance, watching. Beside the brook as it comes forward, a few of the sheep at the centre of the foreground are nibbling the leaves of bushes on the bank, and beyond the green fringe of the brookside herbage harvested fields dotted with haystacks extend to the distance on the right. Signed at the lower right, ScHENckK, 1863. EUGENE JOSEPH VERBOECKHOVEN Beucian: 1799—1881 74—COW GRAZING ( Panel) Height, 2834 mches; width, 2134 inches Unver a blue sky in which white and gray moisture-laden clouds hang low, and drift across far-reaching flatlands of vague indefinite details —pasture lands of distant flocks and herds—a single cow is portrayed in the foreground, studied carefully in minute detail. Her coat is tawny, marked with white, and with full udder she stands facing the left, with head lowered to the grass on a bit of rising land topped by bushes. Behind her, in the sunshine, stands a chicken. Signed at the lower left, KucENE VERBOECKHOVEN, 1849. HENRY PEMBER SMITH AMERICAN: 1854-—1907 75—MORNING IN THE CATSKILLS— DELAWARE COUNTY Height, 20 inches; length, 28 inches Moventarns at right and left, descending to valleys which extend into the distance, with a stream seen in the middleground, veiled by a light morning haze under a blue sky in which light clouds float. In the nearby foreground where the sun has dissipated the haze, the grass and trees and bushes are a fresh, rich green, and on a gentle slope a gabled house comes to sight amongst the trees. Signed at the lower right, Henry P. Smiru. ay ie ERNST ZIMMERMANN f f pert f / fy s , ) JAAAAA / 76—FLIRTATION GERMAN: 1852— (Panel) Height, 25 inches; width, 191% inches A BUSHY-HAIRED and sandy-moustached gentleman in seventeenth cen- tury apparel, black with broad white shoulder collar and deep cuffs, is seated facing the left in an inn room and seen profil perdu as he smiles beguilingly upon a cheery and not unsophisticated maid beside him who faces the observer. She wears a salmon-red waist and a white mob cap. Wine is on the table at which they sit, the visitor’s hat, cloak and sword lie on a neighboring chair. Signed at the lower left, Ernst ZIMMERMANN, MUNCHEN. ALEXIS HARLAMOFF Russian: 1849— T7—_ITALIAN PHEASANT GIRL Height, 29 inches; width, 20 inches Tue sunlit, full-length standing figure of a small Italian peasant girl, who is engaged in mending the hem of her embroidered apron, holding it with her left hand and drawing the thread with the right. She is dressed in a variegated green petticoat, with a red and blue apron embroidered in colors, and wears a full-sleeved white chemise with red armlets and a short bodice trimmed with red.