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Title: Valuable paintings by the old masters of the northern and southern schools
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Nicolas Riabouchinsky Prince Golinicheff Koutousoff
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Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
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No. 12PEASANTS FIGHTING BY PIETER BRUEGHEL THEELDER METER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER Flemish: About 1530—about 1570 No. 12—PEASANTS FIGHTING (Panel) Height, 1(5 inches; length, 22 in dies The scene is a village green, hacked by gabled houses,leading on the right to a wide street where peasantsare congregated. Playing-cards are scattered about theforeground and at the right a bench has been overturned.A woman, whose arms are folded, is falling with it, be-ing pressed back with a three-pronged fork by a manon whose head a flail is descending. It is wielded by afellow in olive-green coat and gray hose, who in turnis being pulled back by another man. The group is com-pleted by another man and a woman, while in the leftmiddle distance still another man stands between twotrees in the act of hurling a missile. Opposite, at theleft, a girl with a milk-pail on her head is approachingfrom a glade of trees that leads to a red house. Signed on a barrel at the lower left and dated: P.Brueghkl 157?
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No. 13LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES BY JOSSE DE MOMPER AND PIETER BRUEGHEL III JOSSE DE MOMPEli AND PIETEK BRUEGHEL III Flemish: 15(>4—1634-; 1589—1638 No. 13—LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES / (Panel) Height, lfi1/. inches; length, 23% inches The landscape, painted by De Momper, is in tones ofbine and cream, with a foreground, representing a knoll,of rich golden brown. Here Brueghel has added the fig-ures—a man in gray suit, with a sack on his back, stand-ing in conversation with two women; one of whom, dis-tinguished by a red skirt, is seated, while the other restsher basket on a boulder. A boy with a basket on hisarm is looking away toward a greyhound at the left. Be-hind this group a man and his dog approach the brinkof the knoll, below which another man is disappearing.A cross stands on the edge of ground, showing darkagainst a valley and distant hills, on which appears achurch. Another church occupies the middle distance atthe right; a wood of bossy trees rising behind it on thelower

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