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Title: Catalogue of the Ehrich Galleries collection of valuable paintings : by the masters of the classic Italian, Dutch, Flemish, English, Spanish, and French schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Ehrich Galleries
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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GEORGE BARRET
English School
1728-1784
Barret was born in Dublin, came to London at the age of
thirty, and was one of the earliest members of the Royal Acad-
emy. He was a chaste and clever delineator of English land-
scapes, which he viewed with the eye of an artist and selected
with the feeling of a man of taste. The landscapes of this
artist are found in several of the collections of the English
nobility.

AFTERGLOW ON THE MOOR

Romantic landscape, with delicious distance of hills and
moors suffused by the yellow glow of early evening. To the left
are rocks suggesting Stonehenge and what used to be called
"Druidic" monuments. The sheep and shepherd are of quite
secondary importance. The melancholy and majesty of the scene
are so powerful that one scarcely notices them or the little farm-
house lost in the right distance. It is a landscape of feeling in
the line which was brought to a height in Constable, and may
be placed between the Italian views of Richard Wilson and the
more robust British landscapes of Constable.
On canvas; height, 44 inches; width, 51 inches.

PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF
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WILLIAM HOGARTH
1697-I764
Catalogue No. 43
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CARLO DOLCI
Italian School
1616-1686
Dolci, born in Florence, was of a very retiring and pious
disposition—much given, we are told, to melancholy. He ac-
quired great reputation for a class of religious subjects which he
treated in a style peculiar to himself. His works are distin-
guished for their appropriate composition and expression, fort
heir pleasing coloring, and for their general harmony and ex-
quisite finish. His pencil was delicate, his touch inexpressibly
neat, and his coloring transparent. All the public galleries of
Europe possess examples of his work.

MADONNA ADOLORATA
Kneeling on a mass of black rolling clouds, the Virgin Mary
lifts her hands in agonized supplication to Heaven, praying for
the souls of sinners. An altar-piece of great power and of most
penetrating beauty such as Dolci rarely equalled. Although tear-
ful, the Virgin is not weak; although beautiful, it is her emotio
rather than her physical beauty that strikes the observer first.

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