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Title: Notable paintings by masters of the early English, Dutch, Flemish and French schools
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association American Art Association
Subjects: Blakeslee, Theron J., -1914 T.J. Blakeslee
Publisher: American Art Assocation
Contributing Library: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Digitizing Sponsor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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No. 37 GEORGE H. BOGERT, A.N.A. Contemporary VENICE £f~t The view shows the smiling waters of a wide lagoon, on the bosom of which every kind of craft passes and repasses, fromthe little gondola to the felucca with its broad red sail, the gaycolors of which are reflected in the still water as in a mirror. Inthe distance, stretching across the picture, is a panorama ofVenice, showing all the notable buildings, the Campanile, theDoges palace, the church of Santa Maria and others too nu-merous to mention. The scene is bathed in sunlight from a blueItalian sky, in which float a few clouds. Height, 30 inches; length, 40 inches.
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No. 38 GEORGE IiOMNEY 1734—1802 PORTRAIT OF MAJOR PARSONS Agent of the Hon. East India Company The portrait, painted with all the skill of which Romney wascapable, shows the agent of John Company in half length ^— standing in three-quarter view to the left. He is a florid-faced ° °^man of middle age, the hair thinning off the temples, and he wears a scarlet uniform coat fitting close to the figure. In his fl ^~7~ hand he bears a staff sloping over his right shoulder. / O^^-t-*^ Height, 36 inches; zeidth, 35 inches. c No. 39 NICOLAS DE LARGILLIERE 1656—1746THE DUC DE PENTHIEVRE The half-length portrait of a man, the figure in profile to theright, the face turned directly towards the spectator. A cloakof red velvet lined with figured silk hangs round his shouldersand falls in heavy folds across his right arm, which is heldhorizontally, the hand pointing forward; a kerchief of fineAvhite lace is round his throat, and on his head is a full-bot-tomed wig, dressed high and falling i

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