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The Old Oak, is lent by Mr. John G. Johnson, who contributes several other pictures, among them a fine
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Going to the Fair, by Troyon, in which is seen a drove of cattle and sheep, with a woman on horseback behind talking to a man. Another still finer Troyon, the
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Drove of Cattle and Sheep, which brought $26,000 at the Spencer sale, is lent by Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt. It will be recalled as showing a flock of sheep coming along a road toward the spectator, while behind are two cows, one with head uplifted to avoid the threatening stick of the drover--a dumb but eloquent protest against man's cruelty. Corot's lovely
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Lake Nemi, the property of Mr. Thomas Newcombe, is here, while Mr. Jay Gould sends his
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Evening ; Mr. William F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., the
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Fauns and Nymphs, and Mr. Charles A. Dana his beautiful
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Dance of Loves. To the same gentleman the public is indebted for an opportunity to admire Millet's admirable
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Turkey-keeper. Mr. D. C. Lyall has Delacroix's splendid page of romance,
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The Abduction of Rebecca, and among the numerous paintings which come from Mr. George I. Seney's gallery, is the same artist's well-known
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Convulsionaries, a crowd of self-tortured fanatics wildly rushing through the white-walled streets of Tangiers. There are several other works by Delacroix, including examples of his vivid renditions of lions and tigers, and Mr. Slater has here his
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Christopher Columbus, Mr. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, lending the
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Giaour and Pacha. Gericault is represented by but one picture, a noble couchant lion, but in addition to the
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Suicide, there are several other Decamps, notably the magnificently colored
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Turkish Butcher's Shop, which, with a splendid Rousseau, the
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Forest of Fontainebleau, comes from the collection of Mr. Henry Graves. The gorgeous blues and crimsons of Diaz's
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Coronation of Love, which Mr. Brayton Ives is fortunate enough to own, glow in a corner of one of the galleries--a bouquet of living color. It was pleasant to meet again a familiar picture in Millet's
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Waiting, which the writer recalls often seeing at the Boston Art Museum when it belonged to Mr. Henry Sayles. It is now the property of Mr. Seney, and will be at once remembered by any who have ever seen its homely but touching figures of the old mother looking down the road for the coming of her absent son, and the blind father stumbling hastily over the steps to the door. I renewed my acquaintance with the inimitable cat which arches its back, elevates its tail and miaows on the bench outside, its ginger-colored coat relieved against the cool blue-grays of the stone wall. It is the apocryphal story of Tobit and Anna, with the waiting parents made into peasants of Millet's own country, and when it was exhibited at the _Salon_ of 1861, the public, of course, passed it by to gaze at the
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Phryne
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Potato-planters, to me the most beautiful in its rosy tones of any example of the artist here; of the same size, a fine
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End of the Village of Greville, walled with graystone, its little street monopolized by geese and ducks, and the sea-gulls flying above; and the
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Buckwheat Threshers, with two smaller canvases. Mr. F. L. Ames, lends two Millets, a beautiful Rousseau,
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The Valley of Tiffauge, Decamps's splendid picture of an African about to sling a stone at a vulture sitting on some ruins, and the superbly painted dogs of Troyon's
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Gardechasse. Dr. H. C. Angell's fine Jules Dupré,
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Symphony,
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Sower, narrower in shape than the others and with a steeper hillside. It would have been a delight to have seen Mr. Shaw's
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Sower temporarily lifted from its place in the modest house which conceals so many treasures, and brought here, especially as it was not possible to borrow the replica belonging to the estate of the late W. H. Vanderbilt, but such good fortune was not in store for us. A beautiful little nude by Millet,
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After the Bath, has been sent by Mr. A. C. Clark. I think it must be the same one which was at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Exhibition some years ago, when it belonged to Mr. Erwin Davis. Messrs. Boussod, Valadon & Co., have lent an important and beautiful
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