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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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rder to illustrate to the Vene-tians what a splendid addition to their city an opera house£ $ , /- and approach thereto might be. The building itself is shown on the right, with its colonnades and balconies and domedroof. It stands in a spacious plaza, the approach to which isby a bridge with a fine roof supported on noble columns. Thefacade of another fine building is seen on the left, and a longrow of houses extends in rapidly diminishing perspective. Height, 38 inches; length, 50 inches.From the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Davey. No. 130SIR PETER LELY 1617—1680 PORTRAIT OF THE EARL OF CLARENDON This is a three-quarter length portrait of the famous earlseated in his peers robes. His cloak of crimson velvet fallsin a graceful fold, showing fine composition of vertical anddiagonal lines, accentuated by the pose of his right arm andhand, with which he is apparently enforcing a point of hisspeech. Height, 50 inches; width, 40 inches.Purchased of Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
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No. 131 JAMES BAKER PYNE 1800—1870 A CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE The sun is just setting in a blaze of glory, tinging the hazyclouds with crimson and casting a warm glow upon a narrowstrip of water which leads through the centre of the picture, 2o ( and is lined on either bank by classic buildings in a semi-ruin-ous condition. In the foreground, beside two broken columns, O **~r ,a man and a woman in Roman costume watch the efforts of aboatman to propel his small craft down the stream. Height, 34 inches; length, 52 inches. No. 132 PIETRO FRANCESCO MOLA 1612—1668 VENUS RISING FROM THE WAVES AT THE ISLAND OF CYTHERA In Grecian mythology Cythera was specially sacred to Venus as being the place where she first rose from the sea foam; a ^ temple was there erected and great festivals held in her honor. Close by the waters edge the goddess rises from the ocean, seated in a golden chariot, drawn by two sea-horses. A gauze scarf, which forms her only garment, floats in a graceful curve above her h

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