Arnold Böcklin - At the Spring, 1879

Arnold Böcklin - At the Spring, 1879. Purchased from Messrs. Hermes & Co., Frankfurt, 1907
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Title: Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Hugo Reisinger
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
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which comesdown a steep wall of gray rock to join it. She standsankle-deep in the water, nude, with figure turnedslightly toward the right and face seen in profile. Hergolden hair is done high on her head, and she leanswith one hand against the rocky wall and extends theother to catch the falling water of the rill. At thewaters edge are lying a white drapery, a red cloak, asword, breastplate and shield, and a helmet with red,blue and white plumes. A tree in blossom rises behindher against the dark rock wall, both tree and wallmounting out of the picture, while at the left in thebackground are pale blue-green willows and other trees,blue water of the stream, and white wild flowers grow-ing in deep green grass. Signed at the lower left, A. B. Painted in 1879. Shown at the Exhibition of Modern German Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909.Reproduced in the volume on Boecklin, by Fritz von Ostini, in the Kunstlers Monographien.Purchased from Messrs. Hermes Q Co., Frankfort, 1907.
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$/n> Wilhelm Triibiier German: 1851 — (ft 145—LANDSCAPE 0 Height, 30 inches; width, 25 inches Masses of foliage thick on the left and thinning outtoward the right form the background, partly screen-ing the corner of a garden from the brilliant sunshine,which paints the shadow of a green fence on a broadsandy path. Climbing over and through the fence arebrilliant red flowers massed on its farther side. Signed at the lower right, W. Trubneh, 1910. Purchased from the Oscar Hermes Gallerie, Munich, 1913. Charles Schuch German: Contemporary146—STILL LIFE: FRUIT Height, 29y2 inches; width, 22y2 inches Observed against a dark background, half a dozen ripe,mellow apples are pictured as they lie appetizingly inthe sunlight on the loose folds of a grayish-white tablecovering. They are red and yellow and luscious look-ing, and one is freshly peeled, the curling skin and anivory handled knife lying beside it on the table. Be-yond the apples is a covered metal pot. Signed at the lower lef