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Identifier: frick-31072002501429 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the very valuable art property belonging to the estate of the well-known connoisseur, the late James a. Garland, Esq. a former trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (electronic resource)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924 American Art Galleries
Subjects: Garland, James Albert, 1870-1906
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO

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Xo. 21 OA THE RIVER SCHELDT BY JAIL WW (LAVS No. 21 PAUL JEAN CLAYS BELGIAN1819-1900 ON THE RIVER SCHELDT Upon the glassy waters of the Scheldt a number of ves-sels are waiting their turn to enter the clock. Heavy woodenvessels they are, broad-beamed and blunt-nosed, their sternspierced by two square windows, their brown sails Happing idlyin the breeze. On the right the buildings on the quay show-indistinctly, and on the left the wide expanse of still waterextends to the horizon, where a passing steamboat leaves along smudge of smoke. Overhead the sky is heavily overcastwith clouds, the blue showing through in places, to find ananswering note in the mirror of the depths below. Signed on the lower right, P. J. Clays Height, 19# inches; length, 31 % inches Inscribed on the back, •Gron/ie tie bateaux dans f Kscaut par un effet deMatin. P. J. Clays.
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No. 22 JEAN BAPTISTE CAM ILL E COROT FBBNCH j * /? LE PAT RE—EVENING ON THE LAKE On the lower slope of a rough hillside, overgrow n withlong coarse grass and rising in the distance into a precipitousmass of rock, stand two tine trees, the principal feature ofthe composition. Their trunks grow smooth and erect, andtheir branches spread symmetrically across the picture, un-harmed by the fierce storms of winter. The lighter twigs,with their feathery burden of leaves, are silhouetted gracefullyagainst the sky, the foliage showing every gradation of tone,from the delicate green of the tender young shoot to the yel-lower tinge of the withered leaf. In the distance are the whitewalls and red roofs of a large rambling structure, built on thehillside, and at the foot of the trees are a man and a womantalking, the latter bearing a heavy staff in her hand. Iponthe summit of a low knoll stands a man beside a solitarysheep, gazing out over the surface of a large body of water,which extends, gray

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