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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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NIERS (THE YOUNGER) F1.EMISH: 1610—1690 INTERIOR WITH FIGURES Ji jJJ (Panel) ^ Height, III/4 inches; width, 8^4 inches A SNAPPING fire ))lazes on the hearth in a tall fireplace at theleft, in a humble interior with olive-brown walls. A peasantin brown who smokes a lon^-stemmed clay pipe stands with hisback to the fire, one hand behind him, the other attending hisf)ipe. Seated on a box or blocks of wood before the fire a manin a green tunic and brown pantaloons, and wearing a longfeather in his rather rakish hat, is reading from an unfoldedpaper or sheet of music, a pitcher at his side. Like the smoker,he is seen in profile, but facing the fire. Behind him anotherpeasant in brown blouse and breeches stands leaning againstthe wall, his back to the onlooker. Signed at the loxcer right zcith the monogravi, D.T. Dr. W. R. V.ilentiner wrote on May 6, 1911: The iiainting by Teniers theYounger, depicting three figures in an inn, is in my opinion a genuine, early pieceof work by this artist.
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No. 10PEASANTS UEPAST BY ADRIAKN VAN OSIADK No. 10ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE Dutch: 1610—1685PEASANTS REPAST ec/^ (Panel) Height, 9^ inches; length, 13l/> inches Five peasants of heavy features and linlboiis noses are refresh-ing the inner man with food and drink. Three are groupedabout a table, seated on chairs or benches—one venerable andbent-shouldered in an ancient ))lue costume who leans over thetable, knife and spoon in hand, talking and facing the left,turned three-quarters from the s):)ectator; one in an old redblouse, schoppen in hand, across the table; a third at the leftsprawling in his chair and like his fellows having a maudlinstare, who faces the spectator, knife in hand and jar in thebend of his elbow, this man wearing a gray-white shirt andyellow pantaloons. Behind them a man in gray-blue blouseand red cap stands drinking from a pitcher, and far at the left,beyond an overturned bench, a squat yokel seated on a barrel-top turns from his soup to look with oi^en mouth and

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