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

Nº 93

Reading edition

Georgio Belloni ITALIAN

Contemporary

THE HARBOR AT GENOA

Height, 29½ inches; length, 40 inches

A broad quay with a line of railroad track crosses the composition diagonally from the foreground to the left, and beyond is a view across a wide harbor to a large and prosperous town extending over hillsides from left to right. Along the quay from the left in a wide sweep to the distance are numbers of steam vessels and sailing craft of all sorts and descriptions, and a few steam launches and other boats are scattered over the water. A peasant in a blue blouse sits patiently fishing on the edge of the quay in the foreground, watching a small boat as it approaches the landing. The sky is covered with drifting masses of gray clouds, the light on which is concentrated near the horizon on the right, where the towers and roofs of the town are in silhouette against it.

Signed at the lower left, .