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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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e Seine. To tell youthe time which I have spent upon this painting would surprise you, and the difficul-ties I have had to overcome in order to write each varied element would take too long—each character or accessory would have a small history of its own. I dare to hopethat this painting will have in America the same success that it has had at the ParisExposition, for you have without doubt followed in the papers the accounts given ofpaintings in the Salon this year. No paper has forgotten to speak of it, and to men-tion the crowd which was stationed continually before my picture and that it was notalways easy to get near it. Besides the administration, which had taken the interestthat the public conveyed to it, had it magnificently placed on the ogee in the GrandSalon facing the entrance of the large stairway. Signed at the left Firman Girari>, Paris, 1875.Exposition Unicersel/e, Paris, 1H7(3.Purchased from M. Knoeih.kk & Co., 1876. Height, SQlA inches ; length 57j4 inches.
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