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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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APE 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 level of a precipitous crag. On the summit ofthe latter the glimpse of a castle peeps out from the fo-liage of a tree that mounts up from the right of the fore-ground.
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No. 14MADONNA AND CHILD BY JOOS VAN CLEEF THE ELDER JOOS VAN CLEEF THE ELDER (Master of the Death of the Virgin)German (Cologne): Died 1540 ( No. 14—MADONNA AND CHILD (Panel)Height, 19 Inches; width, 131/) inches With a veil, transparent as water, trickling over hersoft blond hair, which falls in ringlets to her shoulders,the Virgin is seated in the center of the composition. Arosy mantle, lined with brown fur and bordered with goldfiligree, partially conceals her deep blue robe, which iscut square across the bosom, and has loose sleeves, foldedback at the wrists, so as to reveal the gray lining. Onher right hand she supports the sleeping Infant, whoseown right hand clutches the thumb of the Mothers lefthand, while His left is twined around her second finger.Behind the figures is a landscape, executed with minutedetail in tones of blue and brown, at the left of whichappears an archer shooting up into a tree, while on theright two swans float on water, near a bridge that leadsback to

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