Black's dictionary of pictures : a guide to the best work of the best masters / selected and ed. by Randall Davies.

  • Davies, Randall, 1866-1946.
Date:
1921
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Credit: Black's dictionary of pictures : a guide to the best work of the best masters / selected and ed. by Randall Davies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    silk skirt; a turkey carpet covers the table; a screen stands behind her, and a basket containing a napkin and a cushion is by her side. The figure is seen to the ankles. A beautiful example of the master.” (Smith.) PARIS, LOUVRE. 2587. Le Galant Militaire. 0-67 x 0*55 To the left of a table covered with a red velvet cloth, spread with dishes of fruit, a woman richly attired in white satin with a blue velvet bodice trimmed with ermine is seated with a glass in her right hand. At her right side the officer is sitting with his purse in his hand on his left knee, and some coins in the other, at which the lady is looking. In the back¬ ground is a four-post bed with the curtains drawn, and on the left a stone chimney-piece. AMSTERDAM. 570. CONSEIL Paternel. 0-71 X 0-73 A group of three figures in the centre of a lofty, sparsely furnished bed¬ room. To the left a tall girl stands with her back to us in a plain white satin dress with full sleeves and skirt, the bodice striped with black, and a very broad black collar or tippet. To the right a young officer seated in profile on a chair, his right leg crossed over his left, with his large feathered hat held with his left hand in his lap, raises his right hand as he addresses the girl. Between there is an elderly lady in black seated facing us, drinking a glass of wine. To the left of the girl is a stool and a table covered with a red cloth, on which are a candlestick, books, etc., and in the background a curtained bed. On the right is a dog. A replica of this picture, with very slight variations and without the dog, is at Berlin (No. 791, size 0-70 x o-6o), and of the girl alone, standing with the table pushed farther to the right and the curtains of the bed slightly open, at Dresden (No. 1832, size 0-39 x 0-27). Another replica is at Bridgwater House. The officer would seem to be the girl’s brother rather than her father. DRESDEN. 1829. An Officer Writing. 0-51 x 0-38 Seated on a stool at the left of a bare wooden table in front of a tall chimney-piece is a young officer in undress, bareheaded, writing a letter. On the right side of the table stands an orderly turned half to left, but his head turned to us, his hands folded, apparently waiting for the letter. The light falls from the left. 1830. A Lady washing her Hands. o’53xo-43 A young woman in a white satin dress (not the same as in No. 1832) stands in profile to right washing her hands over a pewter dish held by a plump servant-woman in her left hand, while she pours water into it out of a ewer with her right. To the left, in a corner of the room, is a table covered with a patterned cloth, and in the foreground a little dog sitting up on the floor. 1832. (See Amsterdam No. 570.)