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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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alian—all alike taken with itsbeauty. The Virgin is shown at half-length, facing front, herhead inclined slightly toward her right shoulder, her half-closed eyes gazing piously down, and her slender hands joinedin an attitude of jjrayer. A strong light from the left strikesbroadly upon the beautifid, girlish face and white throat, mak-ing a marked shadow between her chin and the flowing, golden-brown curls which fall at either side of the fair face to hershoulders. Her head is enwrapped in a soft brown and gray-white mantle that hangs gracefully about her shoulders, andshe wears a full red gown under a cloak of rich, glowing blue.The background is of a neutral olive-brown tone. This Picture has been attributed by Dr. Williamson to Fra Bartolommeo, andby other critics to Morales and to Zurbaran. Dr. W. R. Valentiner, in a letter to Mr. Hirsch dated June 3, 1909, wrote ofthe painting: The Mrgin seems to me to be Spanish, and I could not give ita better attribution than Louis Morales.
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No. 19SAINT nOCH BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIKPOLO No. 19GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO Venetian: 1693—1770 ^^ SAINT EOCH X^ I Height, 191/2 inches; width, 14<Vo inches The three-quarter length figure of a man with an earnestly—almost fanatically—devout expression on his upturned, open-mouthed, worshipful face. He is seated, facing the left, hisfigure turned three quarters to the front, his back-tilted headexhibiting his face almost in profile and in the subdued radi-ance of a light as from some celestial source. He appearsagainst a gray-brown background as of clouds before depthsof deep-toned blue, the light illumining his face falling alsoupon the front of his figure and causing shadows back of andbelow him. His throat, arms and knees are bare, his ruggedhands are clasped; and brown, unkempt curls hang about histemples and shoulders. His short-sleeved tunic of sundryshades of brown and dull, mustard-yellow is overlain on oneshoulder by a cloak or drapery of light, faded green. A staf

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