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Title: Illustrated catalogue of 100 paintings of old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English schools : belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, which contains about 1000 original paintings of ancient and modern artists
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Galerie Sedelmeyer
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: Paris : (The Gallery)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Pater (Jean-Baptiste-Joseph) NATTIER (Jean-Marc) (1685-1766) 78. -- Princesse de Lambesque Bust, turned to the right, with face slightly to the left, nearlyfull front. Brown eyes; curly, auburn hair, powdered in front. Lowdress; neck bare; a red cloak trimmed with brown, black-spottedfur. Sky background. Canvas, 23 3/4 in. by 18 1/4 in. ® SAUVAGE (M.)(i744-i8i8) 79. â Autumn (Decorative Panel) In the centre of the panel is seen a medallion imitating a bas-relief in white marble, suspended from a ribbon bow and placedwithin a gilt frame of the style of Louis XVI, and surrounded by agarland of flowers. It represents five Cupids gathering fruit. Below the medallion, a small panel, imitating a bas-relief in greymarble, is supported by a gold ornament. Canvas, 69 1/2 in. by 44 1/4 in. There are three Companions to the above in the Sedelmeyer Collection : « Winter » (Cupids warming themselves near a fire). « Summer » (Cupids reaping). « Spring » (Cupids winding flower-garlands).
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TRINQUESSE (J.) XVIII. CENTURY 80. A Love-scene In a park, on the left, is the statue of Cupid, on a pedestal en-twined with flowers. Before it, is a loving couple, the woman seated,the man half kneeling, holding her right hand and giving her atender last kiss. Another woman has taken hold of her com-panions left arm and tries to make her leave her lover. Blue skywith light clouds. Canvas, 25 1/2 in. by 19 3/4 in. Engraved. WATTEAU (Antoine)(1684-1721) 81. Children at Play In a landscape, is a group of live children : four fair, bare-headedgirls and a boy with a straw hat. They seem to play at keepingschool. One girl, the school-mistress, standing near the right,with a bat under her arm, the other arm akimbo, is looking sternlyat her pupils who are seated or crouching on the ground, Treeswith dense foliage on the right and left. Cloudy sky. Panel, 7 1/2 in. by <j 1/4 in. This picture is engraved by Tardieu and has been in Baron RothschildsCollection. - 94 -

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