Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 185
s, and we may go with confidenceto his pictures for the literal facts of buttons, laces, galloons, boots, coats, vests and breechesworn by the men of the ITtli and 18tli centuries, and of the o])ening year of our own. As forour own immediate time, Meissonier has nothing to say about that, and… … BEFORE THE INN.JEAN LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 69 a few portraits, those of the younger Dumas and Mr. Wni. 11. Vanderbilt, we do not rememberany picture that^ideals with a contemporary subject. Meissonier has no dramatic power: herarely attempts a subject that calls for…
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