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AMERICAN 



HOMES AND GARDENS February, 1907 



The Breakfast-room, Dutch in Character, Has a Carved Wainscoting to Set Off the Antique Furniture 

 of this Room, its Effect Is Relieved by the Chair Backs and Seats of Red Leather 



On the wall space near the stairs, a large Flemish tapestry 

 lends richness of color, and directly across hangs one of Mr. 

 Hunt's matchless charcoal heads, a work worthy of Michel 

 Angelo, yet modern to the last degree, and here very suitably 

 placed amid many mementoes of the artist. 



Returning to the lower rooms of the house, on the right 

 of the hall is the library, with its ceiling of dropped-beam 

 work. Its series of English mullioned windows, extending 

 along the west end, and af- 

 fording an excellent light 

 for the paintings upon the 

 walls. Into these windows 

 are introduced a few sym- 

 bolic emblems in stained 

 glass, of interest to the fam- 

 ily chiefly. The library 

 shelves are filled with rare 

 volumes, ancient and mod- 

 ern. 



Among the paintings in 

 this room are works by 

 Troyon, Diaz, Jules Dupre, 

 De Neuville, and Jacques, 

 while the walls are domi- 

 nated by Mr. Hunt's "Jew- 

 ess," painted while a pupil 

 of Thomas Couture, and 

 mistaken by Isabey for a 

 work by the master of the 

 class. Three other paint- 

 ings here are by Mr. Hunt. 

 A handsomely carved settle 

 is one of the features of the 

 library, which is one of the 

 most attractive rooms in the 

 entire mansion. 



On the left of the library 

 is the ballroom, its length 

 of fifty feet apparently 



doubled by the heavy 

 French mirrors which are 

 placed in several of the 

 large panels. The color of 

 the room is white and gold, 

 while its furnishing is a 

 combination of delicacy and 

 richness. In front of the 

 fireplace lies a splendid tiger 

 skin, while in the center of 

 the room is a rare white silk 

 Persian rug, upon which a 

 dos-a-dos arrangement of 

 seats encompasses a group 

 of palms and azaleas, and, 

 like the other seats and 

 sofas, are of the Louis XV 

 period, of exquisite silken 

 coverings, set in gold. Beau- 

 t i f u 1 tables, ornamented 

 with the choicest china 

 vases, lend richness to all. 



Its chief distinction, how- 

 ever, lies In its three antique 

 silken tapestries of the finest 

 "point." They are from 

 the famous Gobelin manu- 

 factory, and were made 

 from cartoons by Wouver- 

 man's. The largest, at the 

 west end of the room, is a 

 ■ veritable work of art. With 

 Its wide, rich border, it arrests the eye with compelling 

 power and holds It until its beauties are compre- 

 hended, even by those who are not connoisseurs. The two 

 other tapestries on the side of the long wall are of the same 

 exquisite beauty, but a little smaller. The three furnish the 

 controlling notes of color In this spacious salon. 



A sedan chair, once owned by a princess, occupies a posi- 

 tion near the fireplace, and Is used as a cabinet for rare china. 



A Pipe Organ Crow^ns the Hall, Giving a Fine Setting Which Is Greatly Heightened by the Presence of 

 the " Flight of Night," Painted by the Late Holman Hunt 



