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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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6io-i685) 28. The Smoker Half-figure; turned to the left; looking down. With moustacheand imperial; bare-headed. He wears a dark-blue vest with sleeves.Seated, holding a clay-pipe in his right hand; his left hand is in-serted in his vest, over his breast. — Grey background. Panel, 91/2 in. by 7 in. VAN OSTADE Adrian)(1610-1685) 29. -- The Rustic Concert Smith, vol. I. p. 25o, n° 1S4, describes this picture as follows : « An interior, with two men and a woman grouped round alittle table; the latter is singing from a music-book, which she holdswith both hands, and is accompanied by one af the former, whosits opposite to her, touching the violin with his fingers; theother man stands between them, playing on the violoncelle. Afreely painted picture. Signed and dated : 1 673.Panel, 10 112 by g 1/2 in. Collection of Baroness Thorns, Leyden, 1S1G. — — Rynders 1821. It was afterwards purchased by the Writer. In 1S42, in the possession of Edmund Wood, Esq. of Chichester. » — 34 —
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29- — Van Ostade (Adrian) REMBRANDT VAN RJIN (1608-1669) 30. The good Samaritan In a landscape with high rocks in the background, is seen awounded man stretched out on the ground, reclinig on his elbow.He is in profile, dressed in a linen shirt of a dazzling whiteand with a white turban on his head. On his right, the good Samaritan is kneeling. Full-face; he wearsa red garment with a variegated turban, and holds in his hands aphial; a medicine-box is open on the ground beside him. Inthe centre stands a grey horse with its back to the spectator. On the left, a Pharisee is walking and reading a book. He passeswithout stopping, throwing a side-glance on the pathetic scene. Inthe distance, among the rocks, we perceive the outlines of anotherPharisee. Signed, on the left.Canvas, 3 ft. t 3/4 in. by 4 ft. 3/4 in. Described in The Life and the Works of Rembrandt by, « Emile Michel »,page 33o. — 36 —

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