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...Bulles de Savon", portraits by Grenze. Duplessis, Tuque, Proudhon, and Drouais, and two terra-cotta reliefs by Clodion. David's "Portrait of Mme, de Serdan" is one of the high lights of the exhibition, which also includes portrait-busts by Pajou and Houdon. Three of the four periods of Fragonard are represented, while Pater and Lancret, of the school of Watteau, are also displayed...
...period of 300 years. In 1925 Sir Joseph bought it from Oscar Huldschinksy, a Berlin collector. Banker Bache will not hang it in a serried gallery, but in his Fifth Avenue home. There, as private decoration, are three Titians, three Rembrandts, four Holbeins, a Hals, a Watteau, a Fragonard, and many another picture of rank. The collection is among the finest...
There were exceptions to this tendency, notably the high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming...
...crumbling world and at gentlemen who took snuff, with elaborate and effeminate gesture, from small, silver boxes. In the rooms where they danced or laughed or whispered were chairs, tapestried in stiff silk, little frivolous statues, the infinitely suave and polished paintings of Watteau or Jean Honore Fragonard. Last week, in Manhattan, snuff boxes, chairs, desks, paintings, tapestries, busts, the wide golden branches in which tall candles had once burned brightly, were offered for sale at the American Art Galleries. These?877 pieces which had formed the collection of the late Mrs. William Salomon, wife of famed Banker William Salomon?...
...proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut, "in gay attire, seated in a chair," drew $24,000 from P. W. French & Co. P. W. French & Co. also paid the highest price?$28,000?that was offered for any single item. This secured them a bust of Madame de Wailly, wife of Charles...