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Title: A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: National Loan Exhibition (1909-1910 : London, England) Cook, Herbert Frederick, Sir, 1868-1939 Brockwell, Maurice Walter, 1869-1958 Grafton Galleries (London, England)
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ind a table,holding an open music-book in her hands ; on the table aretwo other books, the edge of one being inscribed PETRARCH A ;red dress with full sleeves ; architectural and landscape background. The head, seen in a strong light, Is finely modelled in the reddish lightsand the greenish shadows of Andreas later period.—Waagen : Treasures of Artin Great Britain, 1854, vol. iii. p. 11. It is a fine bright piece done with great mastery in Del Sartos lateryears. The hands are long and of good breed, the neck delicate, the foreheadfair, the eyes grey. The rosy half-tints are well fused into delicate shadows.The hair chestnut.—Crowe and Cavalcaselle : History of Painting in Italy,1864-1866, vol. iii. p. 585. Wood. 38 in. X31 in. (0.965x0.788). Inscribed on the cornice of the architecture, in gold letters, MIlLIORALATENT, and on the table : TU DEA PRESES NOSTRO SUCCURRELABORI. Exhibited at Burlington House, Old Masters, 1881, No. 159. Lent by the Countess Cowper (from Panshanger). 69
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50JAN VERMEER VAN DELFT: 1632-1675 Uiitc/i SchoolTHE SOLDIER AND LAUGHING GIRL (LE SOLDAT RT LA FILLETTE QUI RIT) IN the left-hand corner of a room a soldier and a girl sit con-versing at a table. The soldier is in shadow in the leftforeground and is seen in profile ; he wears a large black, slouchhat with a red ribbon, and a red coat with a bandolier, and restshis right hand on his hip. The girl sits more to the right andfarther back ; she wears a white cap, a black and yellow bodice, anda blue skirt. In her right hand she holds a wine-glass ; her lefthand rests on the table. To the left is a window, with one case-ment open. On the wall hangs a Map of Holland and WestFriesland. Referred to by Burger in an article on Van der Meer de Delft published in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1866, vol. xxi. p. 462, and on p. 548,where it is No. 7 in the Catalogue RaisonyiL Canvas. 19 in. x 17 in. (0.483 XO.432). Formerly in the Demidoff Collection ; and subsequently in the LeopoldDouble Collection

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