Catalogue of the Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150655224 ISBN 13: 9781150655227

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: The Museum Subjects: Painting Art / General Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions Art / History / General Art / European Art / Individual Artist Art / Techniques / Painting Art / Techniques / General Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: GALLERY 8 (alcove) PAINTINGS BEQUEATHED BY MRS. ELIZABETH U. COLES GALLERY 8. ALCOVE. PAINTINGS BEQUEATHED BY MRS. ELIZABETH U. COLES. Maris, Matthys. Born at The Hague in 1835. Genre painter, pupil of Hague and Antwerp Academies, where he was specially attracted by Leys; returned to The Hague, went to Paris in 1869, and, influenced by Hamon, completely changed his style, which found favor in England, in the private galleries of which most of his pictures, bought at high prices, are to be found. For some years past settled in London. 367. Reverie. On canvas, g1/ x 12. Beck, J. H. de. Contemporary. 368. Landscape. On canvas, 95 x 15. Dupre, Jules. Born at Nantes, 1812; died at Paris, 1889. One of the most original and powerful painters of the modern French School. At twelve years of age he was the principal decorator in his father's porcelain factory on the banks of the Oise. " It was in the contemplation of nature, in his isolation amidst her influences, that the mind of the lad was open to her beauty, and that her mystery was sounded by his thought. In his hours of freedom the boy used to wander over the fields with sketch-book and pencil. No professor interposed himself between this talent in its birth and what it portrayed. What he was ignorant of he asked but of her; what he learned was from her teaching. At eight...

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• ISBN 10: 1150655224
• ISBN 13: 9781150655227
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