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Title: Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Hugo Reisinger
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. 169IN ECSTASY BY PROF. FRANZ VON LENBACH r Prof. Franz von Lenbacli German: 1836—1904169—IN ECSTASY Height, 45 inches; width, 33% inches Standing figure of a young woman, demi-nue, depictedin ecstatic emotion. She is observed at somewhat morethan half-length, her hips wound with folds of trans-parent draperies in delicate tints of rose, green andyellow, with white. The upper figure, nude, is turnedslightly to the right, and she has raised both armsabove her head, the hands not meeting but the fingersextended and bent in a tense will to grasp, as withhead thrown back and eyes raised in rapturous long-ing she looks upward between her hands, her lips lightlyparted. Abundant reddish hair enwinds her head andfalls at will down her back. The mobile flesh revealsmany modulations of tone, seen in a soft light per-mitting the play of delicate color influences. Signed at the lower right, F. Lexbach, 1903. Purchased from Albert Riegner, Munich, 1905.
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No. 170SHEEP HOMEWARD BOUND BY HEINRICH JOHANN ZUGEL , rt Heinrich Joliami Zugel German: 1850—-170—SHEEP HOMEWARD BOUND Height, 35% inches; length, 48 inches Coming toward the spectator, their leader close in theforeground, a goodly flock of fat, horned sheep spreadout in a broad wedge, though closely packed together,their shepherd bringing up the rear on the left, his dogaccompanying him. The broad woolly backs, so closelymassed, seem to form a gray and white, fleecy plateau,which is mottled by slanting rays of golden sunsetlight and accented by the recurrent and projected blackfaces and the boldly-curving horns. Their way is downa hillock in a bleak country, the herbage through whichthey are making their slow way a deep reddish-brown,mingled with green and bits of red and yellow field flowers. Signed at the lower right, H. Zugei., 1907. Purchased from the artist, 1907.

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