Identifier: clyall00amer (find matches)
Title: Illustrated catalogue of paintings, pastels and water colors collected by the late David C. Lyall of Brooklyn
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912
Subjects: Lyall, David C
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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A STROLLING MERCHANT BY JEAN LEON GEROME JEAN LEON GEROME 89—A STROLLING MERCHANT U^ In one of the narrow, dusky streets of thenative quarter of Cairo, a turbaned vender ofrich second-hand garments and choice weapons iscrying* his wares. In his right hand he carries aPersian helmet with intricate chasing, and in hisleft, resting against a mass of soft silk draperies,he holds a long gun, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.Near by are scavenging dogs, and in the gloombehind and to the left are seen the figures of bar-gaining natives. To the right is a long vistathrough a crowded street with a sea of white tur-bans and, above, the high facades of native housesand the minaret of a mosque against a bit of bluesky. Signed at the left, J. L. Ger6me. Height, 30^ inches; width, 21 inches. / \
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Iscn <£ Co.Bosic-n. fTHE CARDINALS BLESSING BY EUGENE ISABEY EUGENE ISABEY 90—THE CARDINALS BLESSING This picture illustrates an incident in acrowded street in the old and populous part ofRome, where a procession of monks, headed bya cardinal and bearing a banner, halts for a mo-ment under an archway while his eminence, infull robes, lays his hands in blessing on the headof a kneeling man. On either side of the streetare groups of people huddled against the wall togive room for the procession, some of them kneel-ing, all of them devoutly interested. Under thearch and above the roof of it is seen the intenseblue Italian sky. Signed at the left, E. Isabey. Height, 31% inches; width, 25% inches.

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