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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Leon Hirsch
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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m a man in gray-blue blouseand red cap stands drinking from a pitcher, and far at the left,beyond an overturned bench, a squat yokel seated on a barrel-top turns from his soup to look with oi^en mouth and mirthlessgrin at the others. In the foreground a gray cat ciuled com-fortably on the floor laps her lunch before an u))set basket; atthe right is a great fireplace or forge chimney-blower, andacross the background are brown and gray-green walls. Writing; on bojird the stcamsliip Augusta Virforia on November 24, 1909, Dr.Friedlander said: I was more tlian pleased witli the van Ostade which I foundat your home. The life-like figures are not so liighly colored as in his later works,but have certainly a freshness and a design that are equally good. Dr. W. R. Valentiner, under date of February 3, 1910, wrote: I am quitesure that the A. van Ostade is genuine, and very tyi>ical. It is rather an earlywork, done about 1630-40, when the artist was still under the influence of AdrianBrouwer.
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No. 11STUDY 01 A MAN BY n-yri.K vwn. uujjkns No. 11PETER PAUL RUBENS Flemish: 1577—1640 Ul^ STUDY OF A MAN (Panel) Height, 12 inches; width, lO^ inches l^aJUu^^^ A VIGOROUSLY painted study of the head of a rugged man inhis full prime. He is turned to the left, with head thrown wellback, and is looking upward with intent gaze and apj)arentstrength of purpose, liis face seen a little more than in profile.His brow is seamed and his cheeks are lined; his complexion isfull-red. He wears a short, sparse, sandy-red beard andmustache, and his short curly hair is of similar tint thoughinclining toward the yellow. His shirt or blouse of white andgray is open at the throat, revealing a muscular neck. Mentioned by Dr. W. R. Valentiner in his Zeitschrift fiir bildende Kunst, 1911. Dr. Valentiner has written specially about this picture in his art magazine,published in this city, as one of the prominent Rubens studies in America. Dr. Friedlander, in a letter dated on board the steamship Augusta V

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