American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 139
hat comes from his easel,while the simplicity of his work renders description difficult. TJie Potato Harvest, probablyknown to many of our readers from the etching by Bracquemond, is simply an episode in thedaily life of a peasant, — a woman emptying a basket of potatoes into a bushel-bag held… … Landscape and Cattle. — By Troyon.Pen-and-Ink Sketch by James D. Smillie. — From a Photograph. not with delicacy and gentle grace, but teeming with strength and vigor and robust health.The painter thus gives them their own idea of perfect beauty, and by this idealization of naturehe excites…
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