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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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ies open, and two smallgirls, one dressed in blue with gaily-colored elbow sleeves, whois seated with a pale pink box on her lap, and another wear-ing olive-yellow who stands behind her, knitting. At the feetof the girl in blue a small, curly-haired pet dog looks out atthe spectator. Over the teachers yellow skirt a white apronis draped, and the red gown of the punished pupil is set offby a neighboring bit of complementary green drapery. Thelight is distributed over the three figures of the teacher, herlittle sinner and the girl in blue, while the other three figuresare in effective partial shadow against a neutral, dark brownground. In 190i), June 3, Dr. W. R. Valeiitiner wrote of it: I should ))refer not togive an ojiinion respecting the picture wliich you have attributed to Velasquezuntil I return from Sjjain. But I think I might say that it seems to me to be avery excellent and interesting Sjianish jiicture of tlie period, which is very near tosome of the early works of Velasquez.
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No. 53LUCA GIORDANO Neapolitan : Kj-i^—1705 MOSKS STRIKING THE HOCK Hciyht, 48^^ inches; Icngtii, 50^2 inches ^1(0 A MULTITUDE of the followers of Moses are suggested in theclose groujjing of men, women and children here gatheredaround their leader, who is pictured as a venerahle and com-manding figure standing high in the midst of them. A moun-tainous landscape descends from the right, hrown against adark heaven, with a throng of people, half-nude and clothedin many brilliant colors, threading its defiles and bunched inthe foreground on a rocky ledge, below which at the left runsa stream, in deep shadow, whence a rugged, bare-chested manis dipping water while a mother drinks, her child leaning uponher knee. Half-way down the slope, in the middle distance,)Moses stands above the sitting and reclining throng, clad in ayellow and green robe and blue mantle, holding out to theman open hand for which numbers among them reach, and Avithhis other hand pointing upward toward the ))illar of

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