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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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TRINQUESSE (J.) XVIII. CENTURY 80. A Love-scene In a park, on the left, is the statue of Cupid, on a pedestal en-twined with flowers. Before it, is a loving couple, the woman seated,the man half kneeling, holding her right hand and giving her atender last kiss. Another woman has taken hold of her com-panions left arm and tries to make her leave her lover. Blue skywith light clouds. Canvas, 25 1/2 in. by 19 3/4 in. Engraved. WATTEAU (Antoine)(1684-1721) 81. Children at Play In a landscape, is a group of live children : four fair, bare-headedgirls and a boy with a straw hat. They seem to play at keepingschool. One girl, the school-mistress, standing near the right,with a bat under her arm, the other arm akimbo, is looking sternlyat her pupils who are seated or crouching on the ground, Treeswith dense foliage on the right and left. Cloudy sky. Panel, 7 1/2 in. by <j 1/4 in. This picture is engraved by Tardieu and has been in Baron RothschildsCollection. - 94 -
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WATTE A U (Antoine)(1684-1721) 82. — Le Bal Champetre Three musicians are on the left : two seated on the ground, thethird standing behind them, respectively playing on a violin, bag-pipe and clarinet. They are dressed in the peasant garb of thebeginning of the 18 th. century. In the centre, on a sward, a gen-tleman and lady are dancing the menuet; the former, with castanets,dressed in light blue, with red bows and trimmings, is full of move-ment; the latter, in dark red with a pink coif, with her hands onher skirt, is more composed. The spectators are grouped on theright : five ladies and four gentlemen, those behind are standing,whilst those in the front, are seated; one gentleman is lying down.The light dress of the lady seated in the middle, contrasts with thedarker shades of blue and red, in which the others are dressed.Both on the right and left, are magnificent clumps of trees withdense foliage, which here and there begins to assume the brownichtints of autumn. The beautiful

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