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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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is of brown silk, with short sleeves, and / from her shoulders hangs a dark blue mantle which falls grace- fully beside her on the seat. Her hair is dressed in a heavy massat the back of her head, and is intertwined with ropes of pearls. Height, 50 inches; width, 40 inches.Purchased of Thos. Agnew & Sons, London. No. 138COHNELIS DE \ OS 1585—1651 A DUTCH FAMILY GROUP A charming family group of three figures. The mother, a ^ o. . matronly looking woman, is seated in an armchair. Over a white chemisette she wears a black gown fastened in front bya red bow. Her dark brown hair falls in natural ringlets toher shoulders, which are covered by a large gauze collar. Her young daughter stands beside her, her hand resting on the armof the chair. She wears a large apron over a dress of green silk,the sleeves slashed and lined with red. The baby is seated attheir feet in a red dress and wearing on his head a curious flatcap in which is an orange feather. Height, 56 inches; width, 42 inches.
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No. 139 FRANCIS COTES, R.A. 1726—1770 PORTRAIT OF MISS HASTINGS This is the three-quarter length portrait of a young lady of q^c^v^about twenty years of age, who stands facing the spectator, herfingers interlaced in front below her waist-line. On her leftarm she carries a scarf of black chiffon, which conceals it from *sight; her right arm, on the contrary, making a fine diagonalline across the composition. She wears a plain white dress, withtight sleeves and a ruffle round the neck, while on her head isa small mushroom-shaped hat of straw with a large blue bow. Height, 50 inches; width, 40 inches. No. 140 GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (Nephew of Thomas Gainsborough) 1767—1797 THE CHILDREN OF SIR CHARLES ASHLEY c^~^Of At the foot of a flight of stone steps stand two little girls, aboutten and twelve years of age. Both are dressed alike in short-sleeved, low-necked dresses, the only difTerence being the colorof their sashes and shoes, one wearing pink and the other blue.The elder rests her h

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