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Title: De luxe illustrated catalogue of the modern paintings forming the private collection of the late John H. Converse of Philadelphia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Converse, John H. (John Heman), 1840-1910
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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SHEIK TO THE CAIRO UNIVERSITY Height, 32 inches; Length, 39/^ inches. The center of the group is occupied by the venerable figure of the Sheik,whose gray beard descends over a brown gabardine, adorned with broadyellow stoles. He is being received by two men in long blue silk coats, oneof whom bows to kiss his hand, while the other points to a doorway on theright. The Sheik is accompanied by a man in loose white robe, who carriesa red coral rosary, and followed by a boy attendant who walks ahead of ahandsome man, with iron-gray hair showing beneath his turban. Besidethe latter walks an old man, whose gray hair projects wildly from his head.He wears a necklace of crimson beads and carries a staff. In advance ofthe crowd which throngs the gateway at the back of the court rides a manon a donkey. At the left of the foreground a woman in a rosy, fringeddress and black veil, stands holding a baby. Signed and dated at the lower left, Arthur Ferraris, 1890.Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co.
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No. 61FERDINAND FAGERLIN SWEDISH-GERMAN(1825- ) THE CONVALESCENT, SUNDAY AFTERNOON Height, 36% inches; Length, i5)4 inches. In a pleasantly furnished cottage interior a girl is seated against a wall onthe right, her hands folded upon the blanket in which she is wrapped belowthe waist. A young fisherman in dark blue trousers and shirt, over an un-dershirt of red, stands reverently gazing down at the convalescent. On herother side sits her sister, resting her face on her hand, as she reads from thefamily Bible, open on her lap. To the left of this group are seated thefather and mother; he, a sturdy fisherman, looking into vacancy, she withher gaze fixed upon her child. Meanwhile, at the back of her chair a smallboy kneels on the floor, blowing with a bellows at a rough-haired terrier. Signed and dated at the lower right, Fkrd. Fagerlin, Df. (Dusseldorf), 87. No. 62BENJAMIN VAUTIER GERMAN-SWISS(1829-1898) DANCE OF PEASANTS Height, 30 inches; Length, 45 inches. The interior of a village i

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