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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the private collection of valuable paintings by the old masters and early English artists formed by the late Leon Hirsch of New York
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Leon Hirsch
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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()POUT HA 11 OF A LADY «Y JA((^IIKS LOUIS DAVID No. 30JACQUES LOUIS DAVID .— French: 1748—1825 / ^ ^ PORTRAIT OF A LADY Height, 22 inches; width, 18.% inches Boldly drawn, with keen, vivid expression and fresh and deh-cate coloring, the portrait of a young-elderly woman is pre-sented, head and bust, against a neutral background of dark,velvety gray. She wears a full cap of pearly-white and dove-gray crinkled material, with lace frills, beneath which smalland tightly curled chestnut ringlets project, circling her browand temples, the cap tying under her chin. Her large, hazeleyes and thin, pale lips are expressive, her cheeks are pink,and she seems ready with a wise, sophisticated smile. A whitewaist and lace neck-ruff are visible at her throat, within theturned-back golden-brown collar of her rich, deep olive-greencloak which is embroidered in sundry colors.
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No. 31MADONNA AND CHILD BY JUAN BAUl^IS^lA JTTANES No. 31JUAN BAUTISTA JUANES Spanish: 1523—1579 MADONNA AND CHILD (Panel) C Height, 25^/2 inches; width, 191/4 inches A CLOSELY drawn group of five figures, each with a goldenhalo, in an architectural frame. The Virgin as the central fig-ure is portrayed at three-quarter length, seated, in robes ofred and green adorned with gold, and a black mantilla linedwith blue and also ornamented with golden stars. She facesthe beholder, with head slightly inclined toward her right shoul-der and eyes directed downward as she offers her full breast tosuckle the nude Child seated on her knee. Behind her at theright St. Joseph stands Avith his hands in the attitude of de-votion. He has thick brown hair, parted and falling to hisshoulders, and a rather sparse and short beard. On the left,at the Virgins knee, below the Child, is the infant St. John,his cloak fallen from his shoulder and arms enfolding a highcross which the Child also clasps, as does t

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