Author: American Art Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780332371740

Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Private Collection of Valuable Paintings by the Old Masters and Early English Artists Formed by the Late Leon Hirsch, of New York: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale by Order of Joseph Hirsch, Rebecca Hirsch and Nathan Hirsch, Executors, in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel on the Date Herein Stated Seatei) beside a table on which he leans with his right arm, a cavalier in a seventeenth century Dutch costume is facing the spectator, his head turned slightly to his right as he reads a paper which he holds in both hands. He is pictured at full length, his knees apart and left foot extended. He wears a gray coat and old-red breeches, a broad-brimmed gray hat with conical crown and trimmed with blue, yellow leather boots with wide, turned-down cuffs, and mauve stockings. His hair in long, full curls falls to his shoulders, and a sword hangs at his side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.