Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 130
ed picture was ACockfight. This was jiainted in 1847, and the ligureswere the size of life. The subject was a Greek boyand girl who were kneeling npon the ground withthe birds between them: the boy urging on the light,and the girl looking on with a half-pleased, half-deprecating air. The picture… … 30 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. the same general scope as tlie Hemicycle of Delaroche, painted for the Ampliitheatre of theEcole des Beaux-Arts, and showing the painters and sculptors of all ages. Geromes picturerepresented the great men of tlie time of Augustus, but it had not the excuse for being…
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