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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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n-David) VAN DE VELDE (Adrian)(1635,-1672) 51. Landscape with Animals In an Italian Landscape with ruins and a cluster of trees onthe left, and distant hills ou the right, a heard of cattle is reposingon the banks of a small stream, at which a horse is drinking, andnear which several goats are standing. Behind the cattle the Shep-herd is seen holding a long staff and talking to a woman seatedon the ground. Signed. Canvas, 18 1/2 in. by 21 1/2 in. VAN DE VELDE (William) (1633-1707) 52. — The Gun-shot On a foamy sea two hostile vessels are firing at each other, fireand smoke escaping in vast volumes. Other vessels are engaged inthe distance, their masts and sails perceptible through the smoke.On the right, a red-coated mariner is clinging to the rigging of asinking ship. Two boats, crowded with men, are near by. The seais dark and rough in the fore-ground. The blue skyse en is throughthe smoke. Canvas, 22 3/4 in. by 29 in. From the Nieuwenhuys, Collection i883.Engraved by Champollion.
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52. — Van de Velde (William) WOUVERMAN (Philips) (1619-1668) 53. — The Farriers Shop (Smith, Suppl. 175, n° 107, describes the picture as follows) : « A building of a picturesque appearance with a shoeing stall infront of it, in which a grey horse is fixed, while a smith shoes oneof its hindfeet. A boy stands by watching him. Near them is a manholding up the fore-leg of a white horse, while another examinesthe mouth » etc. Signed. Panel, 21 1/2 in. by 3i 1/2 in.Collection of R. Norman Esq. 1818; and of Fred. Perkins Fsq. m WOUVERMAN (Philips) (1618-1668) .54. A Battle (Smith, Suppl. n° 172, describes this picture as follows) : A battle, exhibiting a desperate rencontre of cavalry, and aconflict between bodies of infantry, near a burning windmill andvillage adjacent to a river, which divides the country. On the bankof a stream is a soldier on a bay horse, who has just discharged hispiece at an adversary on a piebald charger, which is galloping upthe bank, and the rider is falli

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