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Title: Deluxe illustrated catalogue of the very valuable modern paintings, sculpture and other art property collected by the late Theron R. Butler, Esq (electronic resource)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924
Subjects: Theron R. Butler
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO

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No, 13 1LORENT WILLEMS BELGIAN (1824-1905) THE FIRST LESSON A young lady has pushed back her chair from the table on which lie theremnants of a meal, and, bending over her pet dog, is teaching him to walk-on his hind legs. She wears a skirt of white satin, over which is a fur-trimmed dressing jacket of scarlet, while her fair hair is unbound and fallsin profusion over her shoulders. The table is covered with a cloth oforiental design, the leather-covered chair, with its high legs, is of antiquepattern, and against the wall stands a lofty Japanese screen. Signed at the right, F. Wilucms. Height, inches; width, li^i inches. No. 14 JEAN LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER FRENCH (1813-1891) INNOCENTS ET MALINS The picture shows a corner of the common room of an inn in Paris in thepicturesque times of the early seventeenth century. Before a deep recessframed with heavy beams of oak is drawn a long wooden table, aroundwhich is gathered a motley group of men-at-arms. Two of their number areplaying a ma

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