Identifier: illustratedcatal00amer_8 (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ehind the readers seat; and hither he, who has some fine thought,and those who desire to hear some new thing, can resort. Holding the roll of manuscript upon his knee and extending its long scroll withhis left hand, the poet, crowned with bay, leans forward in his seat, gazing at a younggirl in the group before him. Robed in white, with daffodils in her hair, she reclinesagainst the back of the exedra, holding a tambourine, decorated with figures on a redground. One of her hands lies in the grasp of a young man who sits on the floor besideher with knees drawn up. He is resting his right hand on a lyre, which has graved orna-ments and screw pins of brass. In front of him, prone upon the ground, lies a youthswathed in a short bearskin, who supports his chin on his hand as he looks up at the poet.To the left of the group stands a figure in a drab cloak, with a wreath of red and whiteanemones in his hair. Signed at the right, Alma-Tadema, op. CCLXVIL Height, 36 mcties ; length, 72 inches.
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JOSE VILLEGAS 89— The Page Manifested in this picture are the feeling tor the pomp and pride of life and askill in the delineation of sumptuous textures that distinguish the followers of Fortuny, aswell as a certain robustness of style, characteristic of Villegas himself. Upon a scarletcarpet that forms a strip down the marble pavement, and, like it, is strewn with flowers, apage in elaborate costume of the Cinquecento stands, holding a velvet cushion. It isembroidered with a coat of arms, which reappears on the front of the young mans plum-colored doublet. The latter is edged with white fur round the neck and armholes, whichleave exposed the gold and rose brocade sleeves of the undergarment. He wears a goldchain over his breast, and his legs are clothed in tights, magenta and flesh-colored respect-ively, with a magenta band round the calf. Behind the figure rises a step on whichstands a pedestal altar of carved marble. A tall wax candle leans against it, and in an arcbehind it knee

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