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Title: Catalogue of the Ehrich Galleries collection of valuable paintings : by the masters of the classic Italian, Dutch, Flemish, English, Spanish, and French schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Ehrich Galleries
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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execution. Lancret's paintings are so
exquisite in color and in decorative quality that they greatly enrich
and beautify modern rooms. His works are being sought more
and more eagerly, and their prices are advancing with every year.

AFTERNOON ON THE TERRACE

A picture exactly suited to the tastes and manners of the
upper classes in France before the Revolution, expressing in its
coloring and costumes the frivolous yet stately fashionable life of
the period. It was a time when Italian music, the Italian opera
and vaudeville were societys vogue. The Harlequin and Pierrot
in this well-composed group are gentlemen who are masquerading,
not actors, and we may suppose that the party has been rehearsing
some Italianized vaudeville in French which requires these two
characters of the old popular comedy.
Lovely pinks and blues in the dresses, vaporous distance, firm
and fine rending of the carved wall behind.
From the collection of Sir John Porter.

On canvas; height, 23% inches; width, 39^ inches.

Mary Magdalene

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BARTOLOMÉ ESTÉBAN MURILLO

1617-1682.

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BARTOLOMÉ ESTÉBAN MURILLO

Spanish School

1618-1682

Murillo never left Spain. At the age of twenty-eight he
left Seville for Madrid, where for three years he enjoyed the teach-
ing and friendship of Velasquez. Returning to Seville, he virtu-
ally spent the rest of his life there, executing many works for
the churches and private collectors. His pictures of the Virgin,
Magdalen, etc., are stamped with a characteristic expression of
the age, and have a national peculiarity of countenance and habili-
ments, which are very remarkable. His coloring is clear, tender
and harmonious.

THE REPENTANT MAGDALEN

Mary Magdalen in her cave, with a skull near her, kneels
in agony of repentance, and with raised right hand seems to cry
aloud to heaven. The type of face is that often used by Van
Dyck and Murillo, but it is especially Spanish in features, hair
and coloring. Mary rests her right elbow on a table. Against
the skull on the extreme right of the picture, partly outlind

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