Catalogue of valuable paintings and water colors mostly of the modern Dutch school, forming the private collection of A. Augustus Healy, Esq., Brooklyn

Nº 92

Reading edition

Georgio Belloni ITALIAN

Contemporary

AN ITALIAN GARDEN

Height, 27 inches; length, 40 inches

This is a view across a sloping, richly cultivated garden, presumably on the Riviera, to a broad wooded hillside beyond, where villas and other residences are scattered about among the trees. In the near foreground, on their way down to the shade of fruit trees on the slope below, a nursemaid is directing the steps of a small child between the rows of artichokes. The warm southern sun strikes full upon the landscape, throwing the foreground into luminous shadow, and broadly illuminating the hillside beyond and the rolling masses of cumuli which appear over its crest.

Signed at the lower right, .