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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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me and large features, his face drawnin the tensity of the fanatic, leans upon his elbows on the tableat which he is seated, and gazes at the feet of a crucifix whichis set up before him and rises above his head. He is picturedat half-length, the table-top being the foreground and baseof the picture. He is old and gray, and wears a monks brown-black cloak and cowl, the cowl lying in heavy folds at the napeof his neck. His beard is full and long but his hair is sparseand he is partly bald. One elbow rests upon an open volume,the leaves of which he thumbs, and another volume is openedbefore him, resting against a skull which is placed at the footof the cross. Behind him the background is dark, while beyondthe cross is a pale radiance against which the crucifix is sil-houetted and which illumines the old mans drawn face. Signed at the lower left, on the skull, Dou, 1653. Dr. W. R. Valentiner, in a letter dated November 24, 1910: The Gerard DouJs undoubtedly a genuine work by this master.
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No. ^?lMADONNyi AM) (IIII.I) BY BAIIEND VAN OULEY No. 22BAREND VAN ORLEY Flemish: 1485—1542 ^* MABONNA AND CHILD ^ (Panel) Height, 19% inches; width, 151/4 inches Against an illuminated background the Madonna is sho^vnhead and bust, her figure and that of the Child filling thepicture. She is facing the front, turned slightly toward theright, with her head inclined somewhat toward her left shoul-der and her eyes cast downward. Her reddish-brown hair isbound over her brow by a golden band with an ornamentalclasp, and over her cro%Mi by a gracefully folded scarf of paleblue, while the long, unbound tresses which fall about hershoulders are gold-kissed on the crests of their graceful waves.She wears a blue cloak beneath which a sleeve of chestnut-redvelvet finished with gold protrudes, Avhile a scarf of lighterhue corresponding with the headdress drapes her bust. Onthe right she holds the Child, who is asleep over her breast,which He clasps. From the collection of the Marquis de Pietro.

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