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Title: Illustrated catalogue of 100 paintings of old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English schools : belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, which contains about 1000 original paintings of ancient and modern artists
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Galerie Sedelmeyer
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: Paris : (The Gallery)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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rtrait Three-quarter face, turned to the left with moustache, full beardand abundant, blonde hair, which hangs down over the fore-headand falls on the shoulders. Small, black cap, and black doublet. Inhis right hand he holds a strip of white paper with the inscription :« Bellinus — 1488 » — In the background is a hilly landscape withblue sky, and a town on a height on the right. Panel, 21 in. by 16 1/4 in. From Lord Dudleys Collection. MORONI Giovanni Battista)(1520-1578) 57. Portrait of a Nobleman Half-length; life-size; seated at a table with green cover; hisbody turned to the right and face to the left, in three-quarter profile.Brown eyes; reddish hair and small moustache. The right armresting on a table, with the fingers between the leaves of an openbook. Two more books and a bell are on the table. Around thewrist is seen a strip of a black undergarment. A white surpliceseen on fore-arm. Black cape and black, cornered cap. Brownbackground. Canvas, 35 in. by 29 1/2 in. - 68 -
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CANALETTO (Antonio Canale)(1697-i 768) 58. Church of San Giorgio Ma^giore The whole front of the island on the right with the church andcampanile, and the houses of a reddish colour, is brilliantly illu-mined by the sun and reflected in the water. On the canal are agreat number of boats and barges. The composition is terminated,on the right, with the Customhouse, and on the left, with theextreme point of the Quay degli Schiaponi. Canvas, 2 3 in. by 37 1/2 in. CANALETTO ^Antonio Canale)(1697-1768) 59. — The Ducal Palace In the fore-ground, boats are plying in all directions, filled withport-labourers, whose red calottes, poised on the side, gives thema swaggering air. On the right, we see parts of some gondolas; inone of them the gondolier is lying down, with his head turnedtowards a comrade. In the centre, on the opposite side of the canal,is the palace of the Doge, and on the left, behind some other palaces,the campanile. Numerous gondolas and canoes are mooring alongthe quay. Clea

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