The art of the Louvre, containing a brief history of the palace and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists (1905)
Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L.C. Page & company · leaf 464
n,January 20, 1875, this great poet of peasant life passedaway. Of his works in the Louvre, the Gleaners is by far thegreatest as it is one of the greatest that he ever painted.Against the horizon at the right are the roofs of alittle hamlet among the trees; at the left, two mammothstacks of grain.… … Salle &es lEtats 359 women picking from the barren, stubble-field the scat-tering blades the reapers have left behind. Over all isthe atmosphere of a hot, cloudless August day. This isthe outline of the picture that raised such a storm ofabuse on its exhibition. Why ? It represents in…
Musée du Louvre · Painting
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